by Tony | Apr 19, 2020 | Amateur Radio, Satellites
MARCH 6, 2025 UPDATE: While I haven’t made any progress on this since 2020, I have decided to restart my efforts in 2025 to visit each Kansas State Park and activate it on satellites. My goal is to complete the original mission by the end of 2026. I have visited...
by Tony | Mar 15, 2020 | Projects, Satellites, Uncategorized
Although I really like the Kenwood TH-D74 for its long list of features, being an HT, the user interface is not well suited to satellite operations. In particular, for linear satellites where I may need to continuously vary the tuning throughout the pass, it is tough...
by Tony | Feb 2, 2020 | Amateur Radio, Satellites
To track things over time, I thought I’d do an overview of my satellite gear as of February 2020. I actually have two different setups for satellite operations: one for the FM/APRS sats and one for the linear transponder sats. Since I do FM sats much more often,...
by Tony | Jan 25, 2020 | Projects, Satellites
After seeing a few people on Twitter with a a shortened Arrow Antenna for satellite operations (colloquially called a “Shorty Arrow”), I decided to try to build my own. Rather than three elements on 2m and seven elements on 70cm as with the regular Arrow...