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    "sender_name": "Mike Ryan",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]   Re: Egg Beater",
    "date": "2009-04-11T21:23:40Z",
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    "content": "True enough. You don't absolutely need sophisticated or expensive. You just tend to move more and more in that direction as you get engrossed, bitten by the SAT bug, or start pushing for a little more signal, a little lower to the horizon, etc..\n\nMy first was also a pair of ground planes. I've used a Jetstream vertical. A pair of Cushcraft ringos (non the ranger model) and they worked pretty well. Tried a home brew Eggbeater (original not with reflector or potato masher), Put up a pair of turnstiles and built a crossed Moxon. They all had their merits and it was a learning experience trying them all out. At the time I was determined to do the best I can with omnis. It was deadly obvious that a preamp was needed. I also worked with The Arrow, the Elk, and the WA5VJB (3 el vhf and 8 el uhf) \"cheap yagis\". I had planned for the QFH and have all the materials. Just didn't dig into building it yet. \n\nWhere am I now? Using a pair of cheap yagis on an old tv rotor at fixed 20% elevation plus a ARR preamp. Working AO51, AO27, SO50, FO29, VO52 all reliably. Also ISS (when up) and even a couple contacts on AO7. I still use the turnstiles for when I'm too lazy to point the rotor, for high passes, or when looking to collect SSTV from the ISS or AO51 automatically. \n\nMike\n\n\nOriginal Message:\n---------------------\nDate: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:54:28 -0300\nFrom: Bruce Robertson <[email protected]>\nSubject: [amsat-bb] Re: Egg Beater\nTo: Steve Bluemel <[email protected]>\nCc: [email protected]\nMessage-ID:\n<[email protected]>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\nSteve (and the list):\n\nI can add another data-point for you, as I'm playing with minimal\nantennas while rebuilding my station. My latest toy is a simple\nthree-wire groundplane for 70cm made of #10 electrical wire soldered\ndirectly to a male N-connector. This connector is plugged into one\nside of an all-weather switching low-noise preamp, and both are in the\nhay-loft of a barn, up about 12' from ground, but with wood, roofing\nand hay all around. The preamp is connected to the radio by 100' of\nLMR-400 coax.\n\nThis has been in place for only 24h or so, but I've listened to a 33\ndeg. pass of FO-29 and some cubesats with quite decent success. The\ntelemetry of FO-29 (100mw) was audible always; after about 15 deg. I\ncould comfortably hear a SSB conversation on that bird. SO-50 was not\nquite as successful, but I have a TS-2000 so it's sometimes hard to\nget a bead on that bird.\n\nOf course, without the preamp, nada, nothing.\n\nSometimes I worry that we purchase complex and expensive antennas with\npreamps and never fully explore the potential of preamps with very\nsimple, and inexpensive, antennas. This isn't to say that I'm leaving\nthis g/p as my only antenna, but it provides a simple, cheap and\neffective first step and helpful baseline from which to compare\nimprovements.\n\nI also think it might be a good way to get people into this branch of\nthe ham hobby. And in  that spirit, about a year ago, I posted a video\nof a FT-817 receiving a cubesat beacon with a directly-attached 1/4w\ngroundplane:\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1251407580465862002\n\n73, Bruce\nVE9QRP\n\nOn Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Alan P. Biddle <[email protected]> wrote:\n> Steve,\n>\n>>>Once i know i can hear, i will build the uplink\n>\n> Would that everybody else followed your wise approach! ?;)\n>\n> Alan\n> WA4SCA\n>\n",
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