Due to the fact SP7POS was due to have a sheduled QSO with OR4ISS this lunch time I thought, I decided to have a listen sadly the QSO attempt failed but managed to record most of the pass. Audio File for OR4ISS calling SP7POS
Today I finally managed to get some APRS packets through the ISS, this was helped somewhat by Dad (M3JFM) hand steering the Sota 2m 3 element beam and me shouting the odd direction. Equipment Yaesu FT-817 Sota Beam 3 Elements Signalink USB Software: AGW Packet Engine,...
Its been over a month since I did a follow up post regarding the Eumetsat Eumetcast receiving station which I know have fully running, the whole process of setting it up was relivity easy once I’d bought all the bits needed, the only bit I had to wait for was...
After reconnecting up the weather satellite receiver (RX2) and connecting it up to the Diamond V2000 vertical to decode the NOAA APT satellite passes it was finally time to put a dedicated antenna back up, in the form of a quadrifilar helicoidal antenna (QFH) this...
Today turned out to be rather interesting, upon getting up Dad (M3JFM) informed me that there was a ISS pass at around 11:30 UTC, so armed with my Olympus DM-20 digital voice recorder I headed into the shack to record the pass using the FT-7800 and V2000 vertical...
Earlier today the International Space Station, had an arranged contact with the Budbrooke Primary School in Warwick. I was lucky enough to be able to hear the ISS on 145.800 for most of the pass using the FT7800 and a V2000 vertical. You can listen to the audio file...
