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Communicating With Satellites Like It’s 1957 (hackaday.com)
submitted 6 days ago by BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio to c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio
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[–] BillTongg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 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.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 6 days ago

That’s a cool antenna.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 5 days ago

Some years ago I built an antenna for NOAA weather sats

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