The essence of the hobby and art of radio. Thank you, Gil, I'm looking forward to part 2. ✋73's🎙KD9OAM🎧📻📡

Great result Gil 👍 cool experiment getting satcoms going!

I always enjoy your experiments!!!

That's awesome! We need to get a geostationary sat like that here above the US

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

Space X...

@aaronakiyama

7 ай бұрын

@@RadioPrepper that's cheating 🤣🤣

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

Elon Musk might give amateurs a good price on a launch..

very interesting used to install 10 foot satalites in the past then the smaller ones for a bit those were fun times

Good luck with the next steps, QO100 is very cool. Only wish we had something that supported this hemisphere like the QO100. Cheers

😂 I started on the French version by mistake. Great video!

Very interesting video and thank you for doing it in English.

now you need to work on the transmitting part. I have such a satellite set based on Icom 705 and a 60cm antenna. You can take a look at my QRZ under the callsign SQ5AM. Regards.

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

I'll check it out, thanks.

Hi brother great video 73

Très bon vidéo Gil, merci et 73 de va2sib

That's cool you got it up and running . How much time did it take to optimize your dish manually ? I know the VSAT stuff I mess with is automated and it takes several minutes to incrementally optimize . Thanks for sharing !

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

Less than a minute..

Great video! The frequency drift you are observing might be coming from the LNB and it's built in oscillator. The oscillator is not as stable as needed for narrow band ham stuff. Some SDR software can correct the drift by locking into QO-100's beacon.

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

Definitely possible!

Not gonna work as i live in North America. Awesome nonetheless. Licensed ham myself. Maybe someday ill get on the birds. 73

Interesting. Do you have a link for the SDR dongle please? Thanks

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DFeps6T

Congratulations on another excellent presentation Gil. If inclined, any chance of including topic of how you set-up GQRX on your Mac in a follow-up video? e.g. Did you need to run any additional applications or an emulator? Have you tried any other SDR applications? Keep up the good work and hope your Christmas has been everything you wished for and that the New Year exceeds your expectations! 73 from KG43eu

@RadioPrepper

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Nigel. I just found a Mac version somewhere.. To transmit I will use SDR Angel, I think...

@510109

5 ай бұрын

@@RadioPrepper All noted Gil and I also located a 'Mac ready' build. Worked without any fiddling EXCEPT no audio... After exploring, I found setting relating to 'modulation' and once a mode set, audio was present. Plan to complete my portable QO-100 station soon(ish) and perhaps will be able to make contact with you via the satellite? Good luck with whatever you try using on the Tx side. Looking forward to your next production (especially if it includes 'scenic' footage of wherever you record) for sure. Stay safe. 73

@RadioPrepper

5 ай бұрын

Well done!

Would be useful with WinLink, but not very packable. Wonder how minimal a station could be?

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

That's probably the minimum dish size.

is that a universal LNB?

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

Yes.

I wonder how much power one needs to transmit for the uplink? When I lived in the states I have seen some serious operators working microwave communications. Some of their amplifiers were upwards of 10 watts at around 10.525 GHz. This was for point to point land comms. For a successful uplink I would think around five watts would do good making the hop to the bird.

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

I have friends who used 2.5W.

What LNB are u using and what voltage please

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

A generic model, 13V.

Quel est le logiciel utilisé pour la réception ?

@RadioPrepper

3 ай бұрын

GQRX

@F8FFP

3 ай бұрын

Merci

Bonsoir stp une vidéo en français merci

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

Elle arrive dans 5 mins!

Did they sound French speaking OMs?

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

French and Italian.

My wife also tells me I’m special…but it isn’t meant as a compliment! 🤣

@RadioPrepper

7 ай бұрын

LOL!

He gives off such strong narcissist vibes. wouldn't want to have to deal with this dude irl...

@RadioPrepper

14 күн бұрын

I've been called a few things, but that's a first. What could I have possibly said that might make you think that?

Always great content. 72! de KE5ES