[amsat-bb] Up and down converters

Zach Metzinger zmetzing at pobox.com
Sat Nov 17 17:29:56 UTC 2018


On 11/17/18 00:11, Gopal Madhavan wrote:
> Is any information available for up and down converters for using VHF and
> UHF radios to work the new Geo Stationary satellite?

A possible route for RX: cheap LNB ($15 USD) such as the FTW 200 on 
eBay, some retuning of the input filter to move it down into the amateur 
band, and a RTL-SDR dongle.

Seems like there is a lot of 2.4 GHz hardware around (hihi) for the TX side.

WebSDR in the works for Es'hail-2 at:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/michael.fletcher/amsat_oh_rats_eshail_2_satellite_x_band_downlink_pll_lnb_kiwisdr.htm

--- Zach
N0ZGO



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