Re: [amsat-bb] Trying to find my downlink

On 7/18/2016 09:43, Philip Chimento wrote:

I have an IC-9100 using MacDoppler and hooked up to two home-brew Eggbeater II antennas. I have had a lot of trouble finding my downlink on pretty much all of the SSB satellites that I have tried; AO-7, FO-29, AO-73 and the XWs (2A, 2C and 2F). Does anyone have suggestions, strategies for finding the downlink (so I don’t wind up annoying everyone else by uselessly transmitting).

An eggbeater is a pretty marginal receive antenna for the linear satellites. Do you at least have a preamp at the receive antenna?