Gordon, My station here is in a deed restricted area. I temporarily mounted a Texas Potato Masher (similar antenna to the M2 Eggbeater), left it pointing straight up, and made contact yesterday with Richard while running only 27 watts. Also received 70 percent of my photos with very little to no noise on the image.
Dave, AA4KN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon J. C. Pearce MM3YEQ" gordonjcp@gjcp.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:43 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Fixed antenna for ISS reception?
At the moment I've been receiving the SSTV and voice signals from the ISS with a homebrew omni on a pole in my back garden. I don't really have the room to put up a tower, and since the house is rented I suspect the landlord would have some pithy words to say about digging up a chunk of the garden and pouring a plinth.
How well would an aerial with a cardioid pattern such as an HB9CV work? Since the ISS is never much above 30 degrees this far north (IO75) I doubt I'd need to worry about elevation.
How well would just adding a 144MHz preamp to the omni work?
How have other people solved this, without recourse to big rotators and things?
Gordon
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