Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 great this AM over EU & Africa

[K5OE@xxxxxxx]

Howard, Pieter,
Terrific!  I vividly recall Pieter's dimminutive patch from the AMSAT-NA meeting in October and have been patiently waiting for further news.  As I recall, he constructed it using a ceramic material.  Perhaps he will share with us the design (hint, hint) soon?

The only complaint I have is my media player does not have a clarifier and I could not quite tune in the SSB.  It was just slightly low in frequency :-)

I don't recognize the d/c below the HT.  Is that one of Pieter's homebrew designs?
73,
Jerry, K5OE


In a message dated Sat, 9 Mar 2002 12:28:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Howard Long" <howard@howardlong.com> writes:

> Hi folks
> 
> Well AO-40 was wonderful this morning over here.
> 
> Steve, VK6WN and I worked several stations from 0430Z to 0830Z on the
> standard G6LVB portable apparatus from Steve's balcony here in London
> (http://www.g6lvb.com/images/vk6wn001.jpg).
> 
> You might be interested in a separate REALLY portable test we did with
> Pieter N4IP's tiny 1.5"x1.5" RHCP patch antenna barefoot which was still
> giving Q4 readable SSB signals at a range of 35,000km and a squint of 8.5
> degrees. Had I used a narrow filter Rx I'm sure we'd have resolve the
> signals Q5. See http://www.g6lvb.com/images/N4IPpatch.mpg (2.8MB MPG video
> file).
> 
> 73 Howard G6LVB
> 
> 
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