[amsat-bb] Helping a totally blind ham get started working the birds?

[Loren M. Lang]

I have a few suggestions that might help you get started, but it would be
helpful to have a little more info about yourself. What kind of station do
you have or plan to use? HT? Base station? Do you have a rotor already?

As for the minimum level needed to get into satellites, it does not take
much at all. I have made successful contacts over multiple FM birds using
just my 5W handheld Yaesu radio with a $15 quarter-wave whip
antenna attached and no other hardware. All that was needed was the
knowledge of when to go out and what uplink/downlink frequencies to tune my
radio to.

-Loren
K7IW

Also,

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:03 AM Sean Paul via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Hello all: subject line pretty much says it all. I am in Chattanooga TN &
> want to get started working the satellites. Anyone interested in helping
> me. Please reach on out. Thanks N4SPK
>
> Sean Paul informs y'all from my iPhone
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