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Communicating With Satellites Like It’s 1957 (hackaday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I've had a few QSOs though amateur satellites. I bought a dual-band antenna from a company in the US and used a cheap Chinese handheld and my 20 year-old FT817 for the uplink and downlink. There was a surprising amount of activity, really tricky to make myself heard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Some years ago I built an antenna for NOAA weather sats

https://drkt.eu/files/Museum/antenna.jpg

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw somebody was creating a BBS for meshtastic like it's 1999.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That’s a cool antenna.