[amsat-bb] Fox Telemetry antenna?

[Hasan N0AN]

Bob,
It really depends on how much wear and tear your rotor will put up with.

I use an interlaced 2/70cm yagi with fixed uptilt of 15 deg for capturing
TLM and am doing very well. I am using only an azimuth rotor, the Yaesu
G-1000DXA, with computer control. It runs 24/7 and  I have had no issues
with it running it a couple years like this.

I also have a pair of M2 EggBeaters that work reasonably well, but not
nearly as well as the interlaced yagi (5 EL 2m, 8 EL 70cm)

I am running SDRC v3 software on a FunCube Pro+ SDR Dongle with a GASFET
preamp in front of it, and the software schedules all the passes and not
only switches satellites, but also points the rotor. All I need do is leave
the 4 TLM programs running and everything is automatic.

73, N0AN
Hasan


On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:25 AM Bob Hammond via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> I'm going to get set up to monitor Fox telemetry.  For those of you who
> already do so, what antenna are you using?
>
> I'm set up with 2M, 70cm, and 23cm CP antennas on a G5500 rotator but I
> understand I can also use a fixed antenna such as a Lindenblad or
> quadrifilar.  Suggestions?
>
> Bob W7OTJ
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