8 Mar
2015
8 Mar
'15
4:01 p.m.
This is what makes this aspect of the hobby so incredibly exciting: SUCCESS can be achieved with antennas ranging from the $30 Pryme AL-800 or $25 Smiley 270A ... to handheld $15 home-made tape measure beams ... to beams made out of barbed wire or old umbrellas ... to the commercial units and elevation rotators.
I lost track of how many successful satellite contacts Alan N5AFV has made with "merely" his Icom IC-W32a and AL-800 antenna - last time I checked with him, it was MORE THAN 9,000.
SO ... please do not think you need to spend hundreds of dollars to work LEOs!
Clint Bradford K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com