[amsat-bb] Re: Articles on Getting Started on SSB Sats

[David Palmer KB5WIA]

Hi Trevor,

Just FYI, I've posted a detailed description of how to set up a
station for working the SSB (and also FM) sats on my web page at:

http://kb5wia.blogspot.com/2010/10/satellite-portable-station.html

The station consists of twin Yaesu FT-817ND radios and an Elk antenna,
and a number of us in the community are using such systems for
portable and home ops on SSB sats with very good success.

This article is also in the AMSAT Journal:  [David A Palmer, KB5WIA.
"Twins!  A Backpack-Portable Full Duples Satellite Station with Dual
FT-817ND's".  AMSAT Journal 2011 34:14-16. ], for anyone that's
interested.

Best 73 de Dave KB5WIA


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Trevor . <m5aka at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The AMSAT new starters page at
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/information/faqs/
>
> is a valuable resource but it seems to be all about FM sats, there's little showing newcomers how to use the Linear Transponder SSB/CW sats.
>
> Why is this, well clearly because no-one, myself included, can be bothered to write something that can be made available on the AMSAT site.
>
> There is of course some infromation scattered around the web that show what can be done with simple equipment on the Linear Transponder satellites such as:
>
> AO7 from Indoors on 2Watts and Arrow antenna.
> http://observations.biz/Observations_from_Norway/Observations_04_01_2009.htm
>
> The LA2QAA portable AO-7 Station
> http://observations.biz/Observations_from_Norway/observations_14_06_2008.htm
>
> POWER. How much is enough?
> http://www.observations.biz/Observations_from_Norway/howmuchpowerisenough.htm
>
> 73 Trevor M5AKA