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BenDoubleU to Amateur Radio · 4 months ago

Communicating With Satellites Like It’s 1957

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Communicating With Satellites Like It’s 1957

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BenDoubleU to Amateur Radio · 4 months ago
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When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some simple…
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    I saw somebody was creating a BBS for meshtastic like it’s 1999.

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    That’s a cool antenna.

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    Some years ago I built an antenna for NOAA weather sats

    https://drkt.eu/files/Museum/antenna.jpg

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    I’ve had a few QSOs though amateur satellites. I bought a dual-band antenna from a company in the US and used a cheap Chinese handheld and my 20 year-old FT817 for the uplink and downlink. There was a surprising amount of activity, really tricky to make myself heard.

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