I took delivery of my outer net eq last night
We qualified the patch antenna, amp and dongle
Dongle is very stable
Picked up INMARSAT on the bonnet of my car just on patch
Lots of new signals
I now need to get frequencies and decoders going
Look on my website I have just added photos
Signals - are quite strong
about 45 degree beam
mine is 145 deg
Will report back when i decode
Andrew
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On 6 Oct 2016, at 8:51 AM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu mailto:bruninga@usna.edu> wrote:
AMSAT tinkerers?
OUTERNET is a free worldwide Geostationary Satellite downlink system designed to bring content to remote areas all over the globe. They have six geostationary birds covering the entire globe EVERYWHERE. All you need is a small 18” (or 36” in some very remote areas) to receive content via your own home-made receiver based on a TV dongle and Rasberry Pi.
Is there anyone on AMSAT-bb that is already receiving this content? We’d like to hear about how easy it is to set up a receiver.
We have some ideas on how this can be used to augment Ham radio in our Emergency Response and remote operations missions. See http://aprs.org/outnet.html http://aprs.org/outnet.html
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