Comments on: Working Ham Satellites, Part 1 http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/12/14/working-ham-satellites-part-1/ We learn, share, and make things Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: KE7ULS http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/12/14/working-ham-satellites-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4002 KE7ULS Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:14:26 +0000 http://www.nycresistor.com/?p=948#comment-4002 Good to work you today 12-29-08 on SO50 2156 UTC Keep up the good work. 73's Mike Eden, Utah Good to work you today 12-29-08 on SO50 2156 UTC
Keep up the good work.
73’s Mike
Eden, Utah

]]> By: davec http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/12/14/working-ham-satellites-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3965 davec Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:23:19 +0000 http://www.nycresistor.com/?p=948#comment-3965 Yes it's similar to the arrow and it does have a homebrew duplexer. The design is based on a document from <a href="http://www.wa5vjb.com/references/Cheap%20Antennas-LEOs.pdf" rel="nofollow">WA5VJB</a>. We put 3 elements on 2m and 5 on 70cm, and mounted them at 90 degrees rather than one behind the other in the same plane as recommended by WA5VJB. This gives a shorter boom length. I made two contacts with it the other day on AO-51 using my VX-7R, so I can confirm that it works. We're building a larger version (4 and 8 elements) to get more gain for SO-50, which seems to have a weaker signal. Yes it’s similar to the arrow and it does have a homebrew duplexer. The design is based on a document from WA5VJB. We put 3 elements on 2m and 5 on 70cm, and mounted them at 90 degrees rather than one behind the other in the same plane as recommended by WA5VJB. This gives a shorter boom length. I made two contacts with it the other day on AO-51 using my VX-7R, so I can confirm that it works.

We’re building a larger version (4 and 8 elements) to get more gain for SO-50, which seems to have a weaker signal.

]]> By: Chris, KC2SYK http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/12/14/working-ham-satellites-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3964 Chris, KC2SYK Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:57:25 +0000 http://www.nycresistor.com/?p=948#comment-3964 Hi, this looks like a version of the <a href="http://www.arrowantennas.com/146-437.html" rel="nofollow">Arrow II Satellite Antenna</a>. Did you use a duplexer? Was that also home-built? Thanks. -Chris KC2SYK Hi, this looks like a version of the Arrow II Satellite Antenna. Did you use a duplexer? Was that also home-built?

Thanks.
-Chris KC2SYK

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