I definitely need to get a satellite station setup, you guys are making me kick myself for being slow to do so! I've been super busy at work but otherwise I'll eventually get there. Anyone with tips on setting up a nice ground station in a city (Los Angeles,CA) in a town-house (with an HOA) would be readily welcomed. I've heard several satellites with my handheld arrow antenna and VX-8R but would definitely like a better solution.
I'll have to give these satellites a shot this weekend!
Bryce KB1LQC
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Clint Bradford [email protected]wrote:
... Are you ready for the new satellites? (PA3GUO)
Yes - no problem working ALL of the new birds in portable mode!
-one hand for the handheld beam antenna for RX -one hand for the handheld beam antenna for TX -one hand for the HT - uplinks -one hand for the FT-817ND - downlinks -one hand for the speaker-mic -one hand holding an iOS device with sat pass info -one hand for clipboard to write down callsigns as heard -one hand with (of course!) my Fisher Space Pen(tm) -one hand for the Pina Colada ...
WHAT A WEEK FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES!!!
Clint K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com
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