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Second Try on AO-27 with Arrow II

Homemade setup with Arrow II satellite tracking antenna and tripod with 2 handheld radios contacting AO-27 Amateur Radio Satellite Antenna.

August 29, 2012/12 Comments/by

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alaska3333 says:
August 29, 2012 at 12:17 PM

Nice portable setup. Have you also worked SO-50 and AO-51? Here in Europe (The Netherlands) also much QRM on those FM birds, not much consideration for QRP an/or portable stations either… Keep up the good work, and keep that Arrow antenna beaming up! 73 Eric
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aerobicastrophile says:
August 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM

Why two radios? Is it because they’re not dual band?
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bkfawcett says:
August 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM

Radio on the right is dual band, but only used for 440 receive/downlink. On the left is single band for 2-meter transmit/uplink. One radio would be nicer, but my dual bander does not split between both bands, other models will. I started with the dual bander (and Arrow duplexer) successfully, but would have to transmit, then manually change channel to receive…clumsy. Two radios lets me worry only about keying the mic AND I can hear myself coming back from the satellite (full duplex).
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bkfawcett says:
August 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM

Yea! 50 and 51 work great! Need help with VO-52 now (I do have HF….)
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aerobicastrophile says:
August 29, 2012 at 10:06 AM

How do you know if they can split up… im learning…cause i want to get a dual band ht and and arrow antenna (without the duplexer)…
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inrharmony says:
August 29, 2012 at 10:02 AM

Nice job on the mount…you’ve help inspire me to get my Arrow mounted on my tripod…going to give the setup a maiden voyage tonight via AO-51…I’ll let you know how it works!!! Hope to work you some time via the birds…

73, de Dan, W4PTS
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rasputinsdog says:
August 29, 2012 at 9:47 AM

Thats it! An Arrow II is on my shopping list for Dayton! Great job!

Pete, AA8GK
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othrower74 says:
August 29, 2012 at 9:06 AM

One thing I noticed or perhaps its small and not very noticible but you don’t have an inclinometer on your antenna. Are you just guessing?
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othrower74 says:
August 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Never mind I answered my own question. Nice setup. Just need to improve on the sound.
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sonick808 says:
August 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM

this never ceases to amaze me. I got my ticket because of this & k7age’s videos.
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tkdteen2 says:
August 29, 2012 at 8:22 AM

nice video great job with the antenna i plan on get one at the next hamfeast here good luck and 73’s
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SIXPACK110 says:
August 29, 2012 at 7:36 AM

Am i seeing things or did you mount the arrow 90 degrees from how you would mount a camera?…I can only get 40 deg. elev. with mine
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Home Station: Icom 9700 for Satellites and D-Star and VHF/UHF. Icom 7300 for all things HF including mostly FT8! Icom 705 for HF, DSTAR, portable and mobile operations.
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Satellite Antenna Array: AMSAT LEO Pack 16 element 436 MHz 436CP16 and 8 element 144 MHz 2MCP8A with AZ / EL Yaesu G-5500 computerized rotator with Fox Delta ST-2 controller.
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HT: Kenwood TH-D74a added to the shack for 144, 220 and 440 amateur bands D-Star, broadband receive, etc. / Anytone 878 UV Plus radio and a BaoFeng UV-5R (3 of them with 2 in the Faraday Cage.) 136-174/400-480 MHz Dual-Band – BaoFeng is mostly for monitoring and throwaway high-risk operations.
Other: Dual LDG Z-11 Pro II Autotuner for both home QTH EFHWs – And Elecraft T-1 for portable operations with my ICOM 705. I am also the happy owner of the amazing Joplin Amateur Radio Club Antenna Launcher.
SDRs: SDRplay RSP2 and Three NooElec RTL2832U USB Sticks – used with the wideband Diamond discone antenna.
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Second Try on AO-27 with Arrow II

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