[amsat-bb] Portable Sat Station

[mattpatt at 1starnet.com]

Hi All,

I've been inactive for several years now and have started to get the 
itch again to get back into doing some Amateur Radio related.  I've 
often thought about trying to get on some of the linear and FM sats as 
apparently I live in a somewhat rare grid.  EM23?  Anyway I have a 
FT-897 and FT-857 that I plan to use along with a dual band arrow 
antenna that I used several years ago during field day one time.  I have 
CAT cables for the radios on order for rig control.  I will probably go 
with SATPC32 for software unless someone has an idea on something better 
but it needs to be PC based.  Maybe free?  Right now the plan is to 
either hold the arrow antenna or mount to a tri-pod.  I need all of this 
to be as portable as possible as I am currently unable to setup a 
station at my QTH.  Am I missing anything?  Any suggestions?


73 Matt
W5LL