Can anybody give me a primer as to what the hottest satellites are right now?...
I would like to get started with omni antennas...
Four satellites to listen to are easy. Just monitor 145.825 MHz and you will hear several satellites but weak.
1. UO-11 which is 1200 baud ASCII (not packet) 2. PCSAT-1 (mid-day passes only) 3. ANDE packet (HIGH passes only) 4. RAFT (Highest pass only)
On PCSAT-1, ANDE and RAFT, you can try to digipeat your packets to everyone else using the UNPROTO path of VIA ARISS. On ANDE and RAFT, you can send UI packets that look liike this :TALK.....:Say this...
And it will "say this...". But replace the ...'s after TALK with 5 spaces.
See this web page: http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
Good luck! Bob, WB4APR