Video: Talking through a satellite from 15 feet apart
Andrew Knafel, KN8FEL saw my videos and through our correspondence I helped him learn how to operate satellites.
He and his family live in Ohio but regularly vacation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has a long time friend who lives near Raleigh, which is on the way to Myrtle Beach, who he usually stops to see.
Since he was in town we met up for an evening to play radio. We worked four passes on four different satellites.
The highlight was making contact through a satellite while standing mere feet away from each other. We actually did this twice on two different satellites. :-)
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Andrew's equipment:
Arrow II antenna Yaesu FT-818 for transmit on linear/SSB sats Wouxon HT for transmit on FM repeater sats Kenwood TH-D74 for receive
My equipment:
Alaskan Arrow with only one of three sections, except SO-50 pass where I used two of three sections. Icom IC-910H for linear sat passes Kenwood TM-V71 for SO-50.
We worked these four passes:
2019-03-30 - 22:51 UTC - XW-2D 2019-03-30 - 23:10 UTC - XW-2C 2019-03-30 - 23:24 UTC - CAS-4A 2019-03-31 - 00:02 UTC - SO-50
73, John Brier KG4AKV
That's the way to do it... !
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On Sunday, March 31, 2019, 6:56:29 PM PDT, John Brier [email protected] wrote:
Andrew Knafel, KN8FEL saw my videos and through our correspondence I helped him learn how to operate satellites.
He and his family live in Ohio but regularly vacation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has a long time friend who lives near Raleigh, which is on the way to Myrtle Beach, who he usually stops to see.
Since he was in town we met up for an evening to play radio. We worked four passes on four different satellites.
The highlight was making contact through a satellite while standing mere feet away from each other. We actually did this twice on two different satellites. :-)
Follow Andrew's sat activities on Twitter:
Andrew's equipment:
Arrow II antenna Yaesu FT-818 for transmit on linear/SSB sats Wouxon HT for transmit on FM repeater sats Kenwood TH-D74 for receive
My equipment:
Alaskan Arrow with only one of three sections, except SO-50 pass where I used two of three sections. Icom IC-910H for linear sat passes Kenwood TM-V71 for SO-50.
We worked these four passes:
2019-03-30 - 22:51 UTC - XW-2D 2019-03-30 - 23:10 UTC - XW-2C 2019-03-30 - 23:24 UTC - CAS-4A 2019-03-31 - 00:02 UTC - SO-50
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