Bob: Great to have been your first contact, reminds me of my first about 4 months ago. I have been totally hooked ever since. FYI, I was using a base baofeng UV5R and the same antenna you used. Hope to catch you again. 73 from DM43 K7VNE

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I was totally jazzed after that.

@sebbykaiser6466

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheAbyss79 I'm from Ontario too, hopefully taking my test soon even with this COVID thing. Barrie Ontario 73

@clevername8832

Жыл бұрын

What's hilarious is that a flat earther should have no trouble believing this because reception in this case depends on line of sight which would be no problem without curvature. But then again ham via satellite would be pointless without the Earth's curvature. So I guess it depends on how "thought out" a flat earther takes the whole thing. Lmao.

It’s really cool when the sat comes into view and you can hear that noise drop when you’ve got the antenna pointed right at it.

@stevethecountrycook1227

4 жыл бұрын

Hey to both you guys! Steve from So. Illinois here. I will be taking my Tech test on Dec. 14th.I have watched both of you guys for awhile now and am learning alot. Keep up the good work to further the interest in comms! Old guy here. Always wanted my ham license since my WW2 Dad tought me code in the early 70's. Retired now so I have more time on my hands.73's to you both.

@normjacques6853

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevethecountrycook1227 ... Good luck, Steve! Just the other day, I passed Tech and General. You're going to do great....from one OG to another! 73 :-)

@stevethecountrycook1227

4 жыл бұрын

@@normjacques6853 Thanks Norm for the bit of encouragement! I appreciate it. That is pretty cool of you taking tech and general the same day! I have not even looked at the general test yet. I thought I would "mustang" from the start and go from there. You have a great day my friend.

@stevethecountrycook1227

4 жыл бұрын

I forgot to mention since it is approaching 50yrs. since I was tought code, I will need to relearn it again if I want to get into cw, lol

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevethecountrycook1227 Good luck on test and welcome to the hobby.

I seen this vid was 4 years old so a quick update for new guys to this hobby...The ISS Repeater is currently operational! Uplink is 145.990 with a PL of 67 the downlink is 437.800..Some start out when the ISS is inbound to your location at 437.810 and back down in 5 kHz increments to compensate for doppler shift.. Your experience may vary but I have found that if you set your radio to wide band receive that 437.800 is fine for receiving, i never have any trouble with RX by just leaving my frequency at 437.800....This may differ from radio to radio so just play around with it and see if it works for you...Also, use your phone or something to record your QSO's, because if your like me you will never remember the call signs of your contacts and trust me that is heartbreaking! !!!

Great job on your contact video. This is yet another fun part of this hobby. This video has inspired me to get back into this. The best part for me is the look my neighbors give me.

Middle of the night satellite QSO attempt! Congratulations on the satellite contact Bob! Mike N6IMY

I am a 25s Satelite Communication operator with the army. You explained it all very well, obviously the mil sat works on different bands but very much the same as the one you contact.

Congratulations on your first contact, Bob. That’s pretty outstanding the way you got your los. I worked with ku band node centers when, I was in Iraq. But, I never got to manually shoot an los because everything was automated . We networked the entire theatre together with broadband via satellite. I had many friends when, I went to the triangle to work fire support. I was in charge of the only internet on the fob.

Don't forget the ELK Antenna log periodic. I use this antenna with a 25 yr old Alinco DJ580 (full duplex) running 5 watts with great results! The Elk is also a great terrestrial antenna for all things 2m and 440. No duplexer with a single feed line and about the same cost as the arrow. 73

That's awesome. Now I need to figure out how to make one of those antennas.

I just started with satellites. Thanks for info. Congratulations on your first contact.

Awesome video! Very cool to see an HT perform like that.

He is one of the best teachers in ham radio

Good stuff. I have been working stations through the ISS repeater four the past week or so. I use a UV-5R and a handheld 3el 2m beam. I get out better when I use my mobile rig. I could hear the Doppler early in the pass. You need to go down from .785 to .795 as it approaches on the receive, climb to 800 at max height, then climb up as high as 810-815 as it goes away from you.

I just took my tech exam, and I gotta thank you for this video, one of my first projects will be to make contact from a satellite, and maybe get a moon bounce🤞 but I was worried it would be difficult, but from your experience it seem as easy as everyone's making it out to be!

@bassangler73

4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on passing your tech...I got my tech and general back in 2022 and everyone is different but I have more fun working satellites than HF, VHF/ UHF simplex or anything! Its a great hobby, kind of expensive until you get everything bought...If you haven't already been told, the best thing you can do for yourself is use LMR 400 Coax for VHF / UHF, the line loss is very high on RG8-X and similiar Coax....Jeffatech has excellent prices on LMR 400 and its good stuff...If you are going to have to mske sharp bends go with the flex version, it has a stranded center conductor and is much more flexible thsn the solid core....Not trying to be a know it all, just passing on info I wished i would have known when I started out....Good luck snd have fun!!!!

Nice !! May have to give it a shot .

Thanks! I myself am really well versed in rocket science, and not so well versed in radio comms yet; and I had no idea what equipment I needed to make two way comms with satellites and this clarified such! Time to make an order and study for a technician license.

Congratulations on your 1st SAT QSO. Reminds me of my first. 73's Jim KB4FLC

That was fantastic man! Waiting for my call sign, just did my novice exam. 73’s!

I have an Arrow antenna and been meaning to try it, but havnt yet. Thanks for another great video.

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

I had a blast doing this. I'm hooked. Thanks for supporting the channel brother.

I sincerely appreciate your normal level irreverence in your videos. However, I am a high school teacher in Sacramento and I'm using amateur radio to teach my students about wireless public safety communications... I am thankful for the toned down level of irreverence in this video because it allowed me to show it in my classroom to 120 teenaged boys and girls. Please consider me when you make future videos! Every so often, make one that's nearly PC haha

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Freakin awesome.

Great video, Bob. What satellite were you pointed to when making that first contact? I might have missed it in the video

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t remember.

That arrow antenna also works as a great portable yagi to access distant repeaters while out camping. I set mine up on a tripod and aim it and key up repeaters 50 miles away with a old yaesu vx8r.

Congratz on your first contact! It gets pretty addictive. 73

Nice work!

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

I just bought that antenna. Awesome.

This was really a cool setup. I'm going to look into getting an antenna like that. Would this also work with a higher powered radio or is it limited to how many watts that you use I've never used this satellite before.

Nailed it . Way to go. I enjoy your real world videos . I have had my butt kicked chasing satellites. Example: leave my th-d74 power at extra low from the dSTAR setting for my hot spot ☹️. Not reaching much on extra low. 🤓

Bob, Easier than you think. (Easier than talking to the ISS) Hi. I'll email you the first Sat QSO that Randy made back about 15 years ago. The video is B&W as it was recorded on my Palm Starting to get smart phone! Congratulations on the contact. You'll have many more. de WF6J

nice work!

Fun fact: i used the baofeng's UV-5R with the stock antenna when the iss was passing above and i was able to receive signal and hear people using the iss repeater but the audio wasn't that clear but you could understand what they were saying (also i used the dopple effect with the frequencies which helped a lot)

Very cool!

That was cool...Thanks

I can't wait to give this a try, I just passed my Tech Saturday. (3/7/20) I'm still waiting for my call sign. Congrats on your first contact!!! 73. I'll have to use my GMRS call sign it's all I have. WRFF270 Clear.

Thanks for showing your first attempts and great to see your first successful satellite QSO. I'm about to give it a try myself. I'm sure I'll be as excited as you were. Working satellites seems like it will be a lot of fun. BTW, what logging program was that you showed in the video?

@SandersSa93

11 ай бұрын

I’m curious about the logging software as well

That was cool!!!

There has been a lot of discussion about satellites on the TH-74A FB Group as of late and I am interested and possibly way more confused about how to start. But this helped.

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

I’m going to start playing iss aprs on my D74. I’ll let you know

Very cool ! I used to work the RS10 - RS12 satellites when I had the bug. Thanks for sharing !

I worked k6uda and k6vne on the sats recently, very cool !!

@K6UDA

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

Hey Bob. Great video. I am just starting to dabble in the Ham Radio hobby. Towards the end of the video there is a gray screen shot with a lot of info in it. Is that a website or some software. I would like to start using that if you could tell me where to find it.

You did IT.🎉

Hello, good video, very informative. Did you use a duplexer? Thank you from Ernie KC1LKb. 73's.

We're you using the Arrow antenna with the duplexer? I want to start trying to make satellite contacts and I already own a FT3DR, thanks to your videos on it.

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s the one with the duplexer

Soooo my ft 5 d is good with that antenna and my icom id 52?I bought the one from arrow it said use only one radio with this antenna. Hope I’m following correctly

how do i connect the Yagi antenna to a Wouxan KG-905G GMRS 2-way radio and what connectors and cables will I need?

That's a very nice looking antenna. Im not very good with crafts and I really wanna experiment with satcoms, I've been looking for a 2m circular polarized antenna online. Any recommendations?

Bob now you can do the satellite report when Greg is not around. Good to hear Bob 2

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

I still don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

I think we spoke over C4FM. The ISS app is fantastic.73 From KD2TJH

Congrats on your first satellite QSO!! In your video I heard a lot of call sign exchanges. Are there opportunities for hams to talk, or is this mostly limited to quick call sign exchanges? I need the antenna. I have the dual-band HT. Thank you. Vy 73 de David AE4LH

So does the Arrow 2 require the duplexer with the FT3DR?

why did you pick this HT, is it full duplex and is your mobile YAESU FTM-400XDR capable of transmit and receive for satellite use,. looking forward to more of your informative videos

Super neat

thanks, Bob great video 73 from kb2uew

Fun to see a ham make his first sat contact, I've been active on sats since the 60's, now days I'm more involved with mirosats and telemetry. The hardest part for beginners who don't understand navigation and the difference between magnetic north and true north and how to find their local magnetic variation makes it difficult to understanding where to point your antenna becouse the tracking software uses true north, another issue is elevation, few people know what 30 degrees of elevation looks like so most of the newbees are pointing their antennas in the wrong direction and forgetting to rotate them to compensate for the circular polarization created by the satellite.

When I tried the ISS I managed to hear people but there was a huge pileup and they couldn't hear me. I was using an HT with a whip antenna. I do NOT have a yagi so that may have been the issue.

What frequency are you on for satellite

Hey, thanks for the video, really informative. I was curious to know about what you say when you make contact. I think you were saying alpha-numeric words? How do I learn this?

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

What I'm saying is my callsign and my grid square. As you listen to it you'll pick up the lingo.

Anybody know why I cannot find the actual "gosatwatch" app for Android? Their page refers to Android but I have used 5 different browsers and nothing different pops up even on the sites that specifically mention Android. I can find reference to it in many places but I cannot even manually download anything that looks like "gosatwatch.apk" or anything with gosatwatch that ends in apk. Any help would be appreciated as it looks like they may have discontinued the Android version for some reason.

In the early 90's I was ZP6XD in Paraguay and had a nice complete station and was a member of AMSAT-US and AMSAT-UK, went to AMSAT conventions in Orlando, FL, and Arizona, worked KO-23 and KO-25 digital mode satellites, did EME, and many other things. Those were the good days! Now I live in Chile, and I wondering if there is anything new in Amateur Satellite technology that is worth getting into? Like high speed digital modes, or high resolution earth imaging with downloading, or possibly direct laser link communications between ground stations and satellites? What is new?

hey, would it be possible for you to make a video on actually setting up the FT3D for this ? im struggling to set it up, I am sure im not the only one, :)

@A10Jedi

3 жыл бұрын

I agree I can’t get exact frequencies needed

That is way cool!!

Congratulations on your first Sat contact. Good demonstration video. Stay safe everyone de KB3KGA

Great Video. I'm using a Baofeng UV5R and image that I downloaded from the web. How do you alternate between the frequencies? I turned on the radio and I see the listed ISS downlink frequency. I'm pressing the A\B and VFO buttons and the asterik just goes up and down. All the parameters are there in the image. Can you help? Ernest Bazzinotti KC1LKB

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

The problem with the UV5R is that when your working one vfo the other is disabled. You can still tune VFO a to the uplink frequency and VFO B to the downlink frequency. When you unkey, VFO B can receive.

Don't you need a radio that supports full duplex capability such as the TH-D72?

Very good 👍 73

Congrats. Nice contact 73

K6UDA Bob VK3ZDK Kevin from Australia waving a hand. Great Video mate. Thanks for sharing 73,s from the land down under

Great video, I've worked the FM satellites with a Yaesu VX7 so far, have you or someone else operated the Anytone 7x7? vy 73 Andy DO6DOC

Best 73 from 7X2YM Qth Algiers, Op Yacine

Worked the first Oscar satellites ,first contact from michigan to alaska

Flat Earfers will say this was all faked. *lol*

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Of course they will.

@Steven_VE9SY

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe we will, maybe we won't. lol

@iamdrglass

4 жыл бұрын

I will be testing next weekend.....I plan on trying this soon.

@philcarlson5313

Жыл бұрын

It’s possible on a flat plane

Very good and informative video Bob. I just built a 3 element 2 meter yagi out of stock I bought at a local building supply and intend to add 70 centimeters to it soon to try satellites. It looks remarkably like your Arrow antenna. Thanks for your video's that give us entertainment and information in the days of the CCP Virus. KD9OAM

Satellites? Gee, I'm still trying to figure out the easy stuff.

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

😂

Sir hello how are you im from philipines how can i connect thank you so much sir

The Elk VHF/UHF Satellite log periodic for FM and SSB birds have all elements in the same plane and works as well as the Arrow II dual Yagi which have its VHF elements 90 degrees from the UHF elements. The Arrow II has build in 10W Diplexer which is not required by the Elk. Why does the Yagi require 90 deg phase polarization difference yet the Elk LPDA does not?

Thanks for sharing. This gives me the confidence to try it myself. Did you do any comparisons before choosing the GOSATWATCH app? 73 KB1ZYI

I could not find the gosatwatch app anywhere on the play store, any suggestions where I can find it? Thank you.

@K6UDA

3 жыл бұрын

First thing that pops up on the app store.

To talk to the ISS, what radio license would you need to get in USA?

Hi thanks for this what frequency’s did yo use.

@K6UDA

3 жыл бұрын

145.850 up and 436.795 down. That the SO-50 satellite

I've been struggling to access satellites. I'm determined to get a QSO eventually!

So you used the satellite as a repeater?

Where did you find the frequency for that satellite? 9:00

@K6UDA

Жыл бұрын

You can download a satellite app on your phone. They all have the frequencies listed.

That’s soo cooooo,

How do you get your HT to have that background noise, my FT-70DR is silent trying this. Thank you.

@K6UDA

3 жыл бұрын

Turn off the squelch.

@treadlightly2766

3 жыл бұрын

@@K6UDA Thank you.

How close was the satellite pass in relation to your location? Just curious, thank you. Ernest Bazzinotti KC1LKB

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

I have no idea.

nice one and hat a truck

What logging software are you running here?

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Maclogger

Congrats! Bob de N1JWW

Helpful man 73 steve in Va

How do you set up the radio to receive stats I have a ft3 also and a arrow antenna . WD8BQS

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

Go onto Amsat.org and lookup a few FM satellites. enter the uplink (TX) into memory and the downlink (RX) into another memory. Now go to the uplink on the top bank and downlink in the bottom. Get an app like goatwatch on the iPhone app store. that will tell you when a satellite is going to pass over your location.

@stephenvillanova7735

2 жыл бұрын

@@K6UDA thanks I was thinking there was a way to hear yourself on the downlink . I guess I was wrong . So what you are saying is you just enter the satellite in as a repeater then , or do you use the two vfo’s to enter the frequencies. I think I’ve been confused by some club members who dis do any satellite work. Thanks for you help.

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

If. And I say if you have a full duplex radio or a second radio you can listen to yourself on the uplink. I just program my HT like any other repeater. You can use the vfo too.

Please the name of the sat tracking app Thx!!! 73.de

Whats the cm98? Grid square????

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

Good stuff! Keep up the videos! P.S. let me know if you ever need to hunt anything on that property, I would be more that happy to oblige. 73's Tony KN6BVX

Wait wait wait! How do you guys get all the codenames thingy "alpha 2 echo 8...." Where do you guys get all of that?

@K6UDA

2 жыл бұрын

Those are called grid squares. They are location codes. You can look yours up on the internet.

@bidav2114

2 жыл бұрын

@@K6UDA oh that's enlightening. Can you, possibly, point me to a site/portal where I can get that info easily or will a Google search get me all the right info. Thanks, exponentially🙌

@bidav2114

2 жыл бұрын

@@K6UDA yeah, a Google search does it. Thanks a lot

Who does Number 2 work for?!

oooo a Jeep! :D

Hi bob l have done sati lilies and made contact with Russian space ship Mirs I was a long time ago I would stay up way to late and I wou try but even at 4 am the windows closed very fast so I finally got thru I was so trill they also sent me a post card with a copy of my transmission with them it was a trill at the time . Well just wanted to tell you about my first time also. I listen to you all the time congratulations on your first contact i’am sure you will have many more. Rob N1LIB

Fun

Hi Bob

SO-50 is not so easy to work, you have more doppler shift on the downlink, always make sure that you can hear the satellite before you transmit to it.

That antenna should be more than adequate for an EME bounce (Earth Moon Earth) Perhaps you could give a demo sometime? :D

@K6UDA

4 жыл бұрын

I might have to study for that exam.

@cygnus1129

4 жыл бұрын

@@K6UDAToday the Moon! Tomorrow VENUS! LoL