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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/62KQWWMLU2DMFQEAZGIN6RR2E7JRKBAJ/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "62KQWWMLU2DMFQEAZGIN6RR2E7JRKBAJ", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/3TMOI7ZUWWYM4V3O2B36ISD3KP2QPXRP/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "maccody (a) att.net", "mailman_id": "b6473a44d40d4c91b7f8bb74bef3b879", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/b6473a44d40d4c91b7f8bb74bef3b879/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mac A. Cody", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] Satellites and small yagis", "date": "2017-01-29T22:45:15Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/3TMOI7ZUWWYM4V3O2B36ISD3KP2QPXRP/?format=api", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "John,\n\nPerhaps something like the mount used here might work:\nhttp://www.waterlog.com/productsdetail.php?GOES-Satellite-Antenna-H-223-G-10\nOf course, it would all be mounted on top of an azimuth rotator.\nThe web page \"LEO Azimuth Tracking\" (http://aprs.org/LEO-tracking.html)\nprovides a lot of insight on the issue.\n\n73,\n\nMac / AE5PH\n\nOn 01/29/2017 01:31 PM, John Geiger wrote:\n> Thanks for all of the feedback on small yagis and the satellites. There is\n> no way I can angle it up, so it will be horizontal. I have seen people\n> talking about angling up their yagis, how do you do that. It does seem\n> possible on a vertical mast, the only way I can see to do it would be if it\n> was on a horizontal crossboom.\n>\n> 73 John AF5CC\n>\n> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:56 AM, A. Kevin Arber <[email protected]>\n> wrote:\n>\n>> John,\n>> It will work. I completed VUCC last year using a Arrow mounted about 20\n>> degrees up in elevation on a AZ only rotor. I used SatPC 32 to control the\n>> antenna AZ automatically. Very convenient that way.\n>> Good Luck & 73,\n>> Kevin W3DAD\n>>\n>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:35 PM, John Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:\n>>\n>>> After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am\n>>> almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the\n>>> mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted\n>>> yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest\n>>> and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm.\n>>> Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5\n>>> dualband yagi before with good results.\n>>>\n>>> I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled\n>>> and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do\n>>> in\n>>> the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size?\n>>>\n>>> 73 John AF5CC\n>>> _______________________________________________\n>>> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.\n>>> Opinions expressed\n>>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of\n>>> AMSAT-NA.\n>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>>>\n>>\n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed\n> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n\n", "attachments": [] }