HO-68-22-06-22-09-11-35EL.mp3 This is a recording of the HO-68 CW Beacon as the satellite past over at 35 degrees elevation. Using a ICOM IC-910HX and a 10el 70cms Yagi Az/EL controlled.
Progress is slowly being made regarding the Envi-Ham project, and slowly getting the pieces I need, getting the license and software was a simple process and took 2 weeks from start to finish and in-between that time a second DVB World dvb-s receiver arrived in the...
After reading about the Envi-Ham Project in The Group for Earth Observation Journal and plenty of emails about it on weather satellite newsgroups I decided to send the ESA an email and ask about joining the project myself, this turned out to be a very simple...
Yesterday the Fox Delta ST2 arrived and was soon setup after a quick walk down to Maplin for a length of cable, which now means that the PC is fully in-charge of where the antennas are pointing, to do this I’m using the Ham Radio deluxe suite for frequency...
So I completed my first week of satellite communications with the new set of antennas and all I can say is WoW! there’s definitly something a bit incredible about working a floating repeater which sometimes isn’t much bigger then the rotator controller box...
Last week I finally took the plunge and started ordering the bits to make a compact VHF/UHF setup, with the idea of it being useful for both normal QSOs and satellite working but not look like an eye sore in the garden as I’m sure the neighbours wouldn’t...
