John,
My satellite 'battle station' uses a three-element 2m Yagi and a six-element 70 cm Yagi, both based upon the antenna set found in the July/August and September/October 2006 issues of AMSAT Journal. I've used them for many QSOs on the FM birds and they should work fine on the transponder birds, too. I would imagine that the antennas you've described should work fine. I presume you will be placing them on an AZ/EL mount? I've read that if you can only have an azimuth rotator, you can place the antennas at a fixed elevation of 15 degrees. You'll experience fading if the satellite passes directly overhead, but that doesn't happen too often.
73,
Mac / AE5PH
On 01/28/2017 09:35 PM, John Geiger wrote:
After having been off the satellites for a while due to life stuff, I am almost ready to get back on again, I hope. I have a little space on the mast under my miniquad where I can mount a small dualband end mounted yagi. I have been looking at the Jetstream 2m/70cm since it is cheapest and should fit there fine. It has 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. Will that good enough on the satellites? I have used a Cushcraft 5/5 dualband yagi before with good results.
I hope in another year or so to have the parent's estate finally settled and money for a real satellite station again, but am hoping this will do in the meantime. Anyone else tried a yagi this size?
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