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 antenna hasn’t been used in about 4 years so I [...]
After about 3 years of not decoding APT weather satellite pictures, I decided 1 weeks ago to setup the Rig RIGSAT RX2 again and connected it up to the Diamond V2000, for the software I decided instead of using the Time-step software to use a free application called APT Decoder which can track, decode and [...]
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 again. I took the audio out of [...]
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 ISS%20Edited.mp3 I have removed all the excess [...]
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