Michael Tondee wrote:
I've been trying to get my receive setup going the last few days but I'm having horrible results. I have my 11 element 70cm "cheap yagi" back up on the mast and my homebrew SaebrTrack and OR-360 AZ/EL TV rotator system interfaced to SatPC32
Simplify. An 11-element yagi is very very pointy. Everything would need to be absolutely bob on to even be looking *near* the satellite.
Make yourself a K5OE handi-tenna - nice little three-element Yagi, great for portable operation. Work out where the satellite will "rise" and "set" and when, and tune manually for Doppler. Wait for a good high pass, and start about 10kHz high. Most FM radios tune in a minimum of 5kHz steps, so you've got only a couple of "notches" to try. The little three-element Yagi has a very broad beam, so you don't have to be *too* accurate.
Gordon MM0YEQ