Bob, It really depends on how much wear and tear your rotor will put up with.

I use an interlaced 2/70cm yagi with fixed uptilt of 15 deg for capturing TLM and am doing very well. I am using only an azimuth rotor, the Yaesu G-1000DXA, with computer control. It runs 24/7 and I have had no issues with it running it a couple years like this.

I also have a pair of M2 EggBeaters that work reasonably well, but not nearly as well as the interlaced yagi (5 EL 2m, 8 EL 70cm)

I am running SDRC v3 software on a FunCube Pro+ SDR Dongle with a GASFET preamp in front of it, and the software schedules all the passes and not only switches satellites, but also points the rotor. All I need do is leave the 4 TLM programs running and everything is automatic.

73, N0AN Hasan

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:25 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:

I'm going to get set up to monitor Fox telemetry. For those of you who already do so, what antenna are you using?

I'm set up with 2M, 70cm, and 23cm CP antennas on a G5500 rotator but I understand I can also use a fixed antenna such as a Lindenblad or quadrifilar. Suggestions?

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