What Jeff said.
I did go down this path and still have a pair in the attic with my homebrew beams that are about equivalent to a LEO Pack.
If you look on the M2 site at the gain plots for a 4 element CP yagi and compare it to the Eggbeater plot you’ll see why this provokes so many enthusiastic responses. At 30 degrees you have about 15 dB less gain with the Eggbeater than the yagi. And it deteriorates quickly from there as you go lower.
The original poster noted a 40 degree pass, and they work ok there. You’re only about 4 dB down from the yagi. But above 30 degrees is a much too small patch of sky to live with for a lot of people. You’ll find people using them successfully lower than that, but with good preamps and higher power, which won’t help you make a lot of friends if you don’t crank the power down as the sats get closer.
73 Scott ka9p
Make something good happen!
On May 27, 2019, at 2:11 AM, Jeff Johns via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
I never went down that route, even when I had a fixed base station. I chose to listen to those who had tried them then got rid of them. I’ve been on the BB off and on for about 20 years and the same topics always seem to rehash themselves with eggbeaters being one of the most popular.
All I can say is that friends don’t let friends use eggbeaters for any serious satellite work. I’ll put my handheld Arrow controlled by my licensed 12 year-old daughter up against any set of eggbeaters any day of the week. Best of luck to all and 73!
Jeff WE4B
On May 27, 2019, at 1:38 AM, AE5B via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
I had a pair of Eggbeaters almost 20 years ago. Took me almost another 20 years to get over that "wonderful" experience.
John
AE5B
On 5/26/2019 3:38 PM, Doug Person via AMSAT-BB wrote: I'm curious about how successful people have been with EggBeaters. I have the pair hooked to my new IC-9700. So far the few signals I hear are very weak. Both fed through separate 25' lines of LMR400. Has anyone had to tune them? Mine have resonant frequencies that are far off (E-B144 = 155Mhz. EB-430 = 432Mhz). I bought these back in the 90's and was able to work many of the then current birds using an Icom IC-820H.
Thanks for any insights.
Doug -- KJ0F -- DN60ms
On 5/25/2019 5:08 PM, William Herzberg via AMSAT-BB wrote: Hey all...I noticed on my tracking app this morning that AO-7 was making a 40° pass, so I figured I'd give it a try...I set up my radio with the frequencies...And, lo-and-behold, I was hearing my downlinked signals...Right where it was supposed to be...I first sent some CW...Then went to voice...I did hear a station call, but it was near los..So I don't copy them...Last time I sent any signals through ao-7 was over 40 years ago...I made over 600 contacts through AO-7 & AO-8...I had an old KLM MULTI-2000, put out about 10 watts...I used home-made 10m, 2m, & 70 cm turnstiles...I had a 70cm down converter, with preamps for all three...I currently have a TS-2000x...My antenna is a 2m eggbeater....I'm using an mfj duplexer, for both uplink & downlink...It works well on both the analog and fm birds...I plan on getting a 70cm eggbeater soon...But it seems to be working fine with the single antenna...
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