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Successfully defeated my learning overwhelm and inertia today thanks to some input here on satellite listening!

First bird heard was SO-50 and then later astronaut Mike Fincke making contacts on the space station. With hams from New Jersey, CT, and Quebec. Clear as a bell on just 18° elevation with a Comet SBB5 mag mount dual band whip, Radioddity GD77 and opengd77!

Another listen with a teacher tomorrow!

#satellites #aos #iss #SO50 #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmSat #opengd77 #gd77

Man in a yellow rain jacket holding a black magnetic mount whip antenna in the rain.

Today i finalized my dual-band hand-held antenna and made some tests with LEO sats.

I could make my first QSO on #SO50.

It's quite a challenge to deal with azimuth, elevation, polarization ... and calling

The Anytone D878uvii is a great transceiver with its sat mode ! No need to care about the frequencies configuration and Doppler effect. It even provides real time indication on azimuth and elevation.

That was fun !

G0FMZ in the I072ww log. #so50 #mw1bqo

Moin. Was ne Überraschung. DL2GRC auf #SO50 gerade gearbeitet. Kenne Nina schon vom #QO100 - Tnx 4 QSO

I managed 37 QSOs through 10 🛰️ LEO satellite this week. (Jan 28..Feb 4) #SevenDaysOfSats.

New entities worked:
🌍 DXCC: Z3 🇲🇰
🌐 Grids: JN13, JN81, KN01, KN02, KN04

Thanks to #F4DEU, #IW7EAP, #YU4SMT, #YU0W, #YU1EW and #YT1CI

#AO91 #CAS3H #RS44 #JO97 #XW2A #SO50 #FO29 #ISS #FO118 #PO101

#AMSAT #hamr

Map showing locations of my amateur radio satellite contacts this week.

#TowerTuesday #hamradio #amateurradio #amateurfunk #hamr #cbradio #27mc #SWL #DX #SDR #HFbands

RT @PCabreraCamara@twitter.com

Ready for my last #SO50 #satellite pass from IN97, I will miss you too !! @The_Grid_Life@twitter.com #hamradio

Just tried to work #SO-50 with the new tape measure yagi. I don't know if it's because I'm not used to working with a beam or if the bird was quiet but I didn't pick anything up at all. I know it's not super performant on 70cm, so I'll try it with #AO-85 on its next pass.

Was just trying to work #SO-50. I was mid QSO with a station in Canada when I got my beard stuck in the PTT switch. Threw the radio, probably cussed on the air, immediate LOS with the bird... So grumpy right now. !amateur

Gonna be a near perfect pass of #SO-50 this weekend: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://sdf.org/0/users/hobbsc/glog/SO-50-77178.txt !amateur

No luck on #SO-50 today. It was a pileup as usual. !amateur

Good !tzag, friends! Four day weekend! Going to try to catch #SO-50 after I drop my son off at school, then I think I'll get some billable hours in and swing trade a little cryptocurrency. Trying to decide if I'm going to hike a bit or hit the climbing gym today (wife encouraged me to do the latter). Definitely going to hike a ton this weekend, maybe even camp. The weather is supposed to be beautiful.

Can't decide if I'm going to stay up until nearly 0100 to catch a near perfect pass of #SO-50. !amateur

Could not get #SO-50 at all this morning. Heard two calls but got zero quieting, it's almost like the bird was spinning. Normally it's much easier for me to work SO-50 than AO-85, so I'm not sure if I am just tired or what. I should normally be up this early so I used the satellite to get out of bed at a reasonable time. Didn't get much sleep last night, so I still feel like crap. Time to start the day, I guess. Good !tzag and strong !coffee to you all. /cc !amateur

Can anyone explain to me why recommended Doppler shift adjustment for #SO-50 is on RX but recommended adjustment for #AO-85 is on TX? !amateur

current process:

0. open gpredict
1. update TLEs from network
2. update TLEs from files i download nightly
3. find future passes for #AO-85, write down anything over 65 deg
4. find future passes for #SO-50, write down anything over 65 deg
5. rinse and repeat every couple of days or so

seems to me that could be automated, even if i have to use something weird like expect to fumble through the gui and save pass reports to parse.

failed to pick up #SO-50 on a near perfect pass again. really frustrated about this one but i didn't get outside quick enough. !amateur

Just programmed #AO-85 into my HT but the doppler shift seems strange to me, though... I hope I got it right. That bird and #SO-50 will have near perfect passes tomorrow. I'm going to work them with the whip instead of losing another chance to the eye-gouger. It'll be uncomfortable but I'd like to get another entry in my logbook. !amateur

Trending today:
1. #maga 2
2. #announcement 1
3. #alert 1
4. #ipfs 1
5. #so50 1

#SO-50's pass tonight is going to be nearly perfect. I hope I don't miss the bird by experimenting with this antenna. !amateur

#SO50

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