Hi! I was able to hear 2 ISS passes last night, and work one of them. With very little notice that the repeater would be turned on for a few days, lots of...
Good Morning Everyone! From 14 February 2008 to 16 February 2008 I will be low power mobile. I will transmit on 2 meters and 70cm starting in Princeton,...
I'd be interested in a permanent mount for the Arrow also - there must be a rotor that does rotation and elevation but doesn't cost an arm and leg? Thanks for...
What is the uplink frequency on ISS now? Steve ... From: "Patrick STODDARD" <yahoo@...> To: <fm-satellite@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 01,...
Just getting started with working satellites but have noticed there is a big discrepancy in the various websites regarding which bird uses what frequencies....
Hi Steve! ... 437.800 MHz FM, +/- for Doppler. At the start of a pass, you'll probably be around 437.790 MHz to be heard through the ISS cross-band repeater,...
Thanks Rafael, That looks like a great antenna. ... http://gulfalphaantennas.com/Product%20Page%202M%2070CM%20sat%20yagi.html ... commitment with the...
No, there isnt one that is cheap, but... you can make one, using TWO of the cheap "clacker" type old alliance rotors, one rotates the beam azimuth, the...
I heard the pass with Stefan VE4NSA. The max elevation from FM19 was 8.5 degrees and I was using my Diamond MV3A vertical mag-mounted to the Outback's roof. I...
Hi Joe! ... The ISS should probably be the easiest ham signal to hear from space, with its 10W TM-D700. If you are going to try working it, we may only have...
I heard the AO-16 downlink today with a simple ground plane antenna, but it sure was tough to understand anyone. Tried both USB and LSB with my IC-7000 and...
Hi folks, worked the ISS repeater today (Feb. 2) for my first satellite contact since OSCAR 10 in the 80's. First tried with a 2m horizontal yagi and,...
Hi Bill! ... The downlink is actually a DSB downlink, and it *may* be possible to hear more than one voice coming through the downlink. Some who posted to...
Subject: Can't get pSatellite or PocketSat to work with Treo 680 I cannot get pSatellite nor PocketSat to work on my Treo 680. The programs will not recognize...
You have to download Keps in .PDB format. These are available on the AMSAT website. I believe that there is also a converter available somewhere but I have...
Patrick, Thanks for the reply. We just had a nice high pass here, and this time I managed QSOs with N5UXT, K5AXW and N5AFE. Still quite hard to hear what...
Hi Bill! ... You only have 5 kHz tuning steps for the IC-7000 in AM? The manual, at least a PDF copy I downloaded, claims the default tuning step in AM is 1...
Hi Bill! ... A JA ham reported a week or so ago that he could hear the AO-16 downlink using AM on his receiver, but with a rediced carrier compared to...
Hi, Tried the FM birds for the first time this past weekend and had success with the ISS, SO-50, AO-51, and AO-16. I'm using an IC-7000, which has a single...
Hi again! ... A 2m/70cm duplexer is all he would need. The antenna's coax would go to the common port, and then the separate 2m and 70cm ports on the duplexer...
Patrick, Yeah, I was afraid you would say get a duplexer. At $40 for an MFJ-916B, I could just build him a second ground plane for much less. But at least...
Hi Bill! ... You could try to make your own, if you didn't want to fork over the $$$ to get one from a radio shop. Yes, the duplexer would eliminate the need...
Why do the MX-72D and the Comet use PL-259s as connectors for the line to the rigs? Seems to me that this means we need a PL-258 barrell and thus more loss....
Hi Bill! ... Probably because, when dual-band mobile rigs started showing up originally, there were coax pigtails for each band coming out of the back of the...
Hi Bill! ... Comet has a CF-4160J with only SO-239 connectors: http://www.cometantenna.com/products.php?CatID=1&famID=6&childID=0 MFJ has the MFJ-916B, also...
I get to say something now! The Comet CF-416... there are different versions of this, one of the versions comes with BNC connectors! I use mine on my arrow...
Hi! Kenneth N5VHO, ham radio engineer at NASA in Houston, posted to the ISS Fan Club web site that the ISS ham radio is now off. It's off in preparation for...
