My first ISS contact I stood in the street in front of my house with a home brew antenna made from welding rods and my icom 705, with the neighbour giving me odd looks. Superb, it's easier than you think.

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

If you don't get odd looks from your neighbors you're not doing it right. Oddly enough, I had new neighbors moving in across the street as we were doing this. Welcome to the neighborhood!

And just like that, an Arrow antenna has made my "must buy" list! Congrats on your first ISS contact Mike!

@jimcorbin6905

10 ай бұрын

They work great. Well worth the cost

1st sat contact is a POTA park? Now that's hamming harder! Congrats, Mike 🤘

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

@EcoGeekify

10 ай бұрын

KC0ECQ practically lives in parks.

@KC0ECQ-HamRadioEndeavors

10 ай бұрын

@@EcoGeekifyMan I wish!😂 It’s been tough to find time lately. 73!

@timothyboyd5669

5 ай бұрын

I've done a few Satellites while doing POTA. Currently working with a FT-847 and IC-821 so I can do the SSB birds

I have been doing APRS to the ISS the last couple of months. Pretty cool! 73

Too f'n funny! I actually laughed out loud when he came back to you. Gratz!

Awesome Man! I saw the ISS the other night. It was an overhead pass bright as day in the moonlight. Kinda Cool.

I was laughing so hard at the beginning. All I could think was "His arm is gonna get tired." I remember when I first started on Satellites my arm would get soooo sore. I finally took a 5 gallon bucket out and sat on it with my antenna arm on my knee. When it was raining one night I put a large garbage bag over my Arrow antenna and got a couple of contacts. You are hooked now!!! 73!!! de KE5ES

Some tips: 1. Go full duplex. Use a second radio to receive and you'll know when you're getting through. 2. Get a small audio recorder. Easier than writing down calls. 3. Watch for the Doppler shift. You were receiving fine but clearly the downlink frequency moved so it sounded distorted. Congrats on your first satellite QSO. 73 KF7R

Congratulations. I've made 3 but I'm still figuring stuff out. Try it after dark and when the satellite is visible. Makes it easier to aim your antenna. Enjoy, 73 from KN4MXZ

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Ooh, that's a good idea!

Congrats! I heard for the first time what I assume was people on the repeater on the ISS a few nights ago. Now to chase some contacts!

Congrats and thanks for the inspiration ! This is on the top of my ham radio to-do list.

What an awesome hobby! All the different ways you can communicate over radio. Congrats! KX4IG

Very cool. The birds are fun. I need to get back into it. I run an Elk periodic handheld antenna, and either a Yaesu FT2D or FT3D. I use the banks that are in the radios for each satellite. Works great!

Congrats Mike! Scored on your first attempt even!

Epic contact, Miguel! You are the man!

Woo hoo! Congrats buddy, well done! Love to see that excitement!

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

You and me both!

Congrats Mike!!!🎉🎉

I have just received my arrow antenna, going to set mine up to have some contacts on satellites soon. Cool stuff Mike, congrats!

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Right on man, you're going to have fun!

Congratulations Mike.

Cool stuff! I gotta try that.

Mike so happy you got to do that. I see a future of yagis and rotors someday.

I love the ISS because it is the easiest thing in space to hit. It pushes ten watts, which is huge for ham stuff in orbit, and it does not rotate or tumble (thankfully), so there's no polarization fading. Congrats!

Awesome Mike 👍

Congratulations!!

Awesome video Mike! I am so happy to have been your first! I LOVE your channel brother. 73,

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Hey thanks so much man! You popped my cherry!

@KC0ECQ-HamRadioEndeavors

10 ай бұрын

@@hamradiotube I’m glad it was as good for you as it was for me😂😂

Aaaannnnnddddd my coffee is now all over my iPad 😂 1:19

Chasing satellites is fun! Congratulations on your first contact.

That was good!! Great video!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Mike fantastic work. 73😊

Too Cool, congratulations!

Good job mike! I just got into satellites last year,using a elk log periodic dual band beam using 2 baofeng HT's. Works great. recently purchased the sarctrac rotator from australia and working on putting it all together to auto track with software from the QTH. But so far all my contacts have been from me standing in my yard and manually beaming them, all good! enjoy the many facets of ham radio! looking to up grade to the icom 9700 eventually ,it has a satellite function in it.

Excellent. Good job

Congrats!

Love the shirt man. Goonies forever!

@hamradiotube

4 ай бұрын

Hey you guys!!!!!

Man, that's a double whammy right there!

Got a 3fer 1st sat contact , 1st ISS repeater contact , and a POTA on Satellite . Would have been better if it was a contact with Astronaut on the ISS but you take what you can get. Have you got the Bug now. Are we going to see more videos on Space Comms ?

Great, watching such a video makes me want to get on the FM birds again. Done that 20 years ago, time to get started again I guess.

Lol Mike. Really happy for you dude. APRS would have been so cool if you'd managed it lol

Great 👍 job ! 🎙

awesome to see!! Might have to try it myself. Mike...... I am the guy that sent you a help request about my yaesu ftm-6000 radio not working on repeaters but worked simplex. After many hours of frustration. Yaesu called me and long story short. My seperation cable was bad. Works like a champ on the mini cable also included in the kit. Thank you very much for your reply. Maurice N7NHS

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

It’s always the little things that cause the most frustration isn’t it? Glad you got it working.

Digging the Crocs.... a must for every hard-core ham..... awesome contact.

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Rock out with your crocs out

@EcoGeekify

10 ай бұрын

Crocs are +5db

@garyh8315

10 ай бұрын

@@EcoGeekify 🤣🤣🤣

That's awesome, Mike! I can't wait to make my first ISS contact. Also, couldn't tell if you were drinking red kool-aid, put on some lipstick, or got some bad sun burn in your lips for us at the end there (4:38). Lol!

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

No kool-aid or lipstick but definitely Jameson and Coke

The same excitement as I have. But, you are working on the hottest day, and I worked on relative cold night. Also ISS, also in zenith. I am using log periodic antenna - old TV antenna, just modified by adding extra aluminum rods to get to resonate on 435 and 145 MHz. Not great antenna since SWR is all over the place. Noticed that it has wide frequency range. I made mistake and calculating element lengths as if it is Yagi antenna. So, reflector is 5% longer, first director is 5% shorter, and so on. But, later discovered that it should be actually in range of 1% or less. My bad. Other satellites as is cubesat - no way to reach. Too bad antenna. Anyway, congratulations for your first contact on satellite. I bet not last, since is is very addictive. EDIT: Forgot to say about my rig: Baofeng GT-5TP. I did not see that you are changing channel or frequency. You should do a 'cheatsheet' or at least remember that on approach (close to horizon), the Doppler shift is nearly 10 kHz, at point above you is near 0, and far away is -10 kHz. I am using radio in frequency mode with frequency step of 5 kHz, so just four clicks over the whole satellite pass. So, start to listen (for ISS) on 437.810, then after a while press arrow to change frequency to 437.805, then at peak 437.800, and so on. It is sufficient to jump 5 kHz, since repeater onboard ISS has relatively wide capturing range. I set my Baofeng so that RX frequency is 437.800 with frequency offset of 291.810 MHz (TX - RX frequency, or 437.800 - 145.990 = 291.810 MHz). The offset is constant, while doppler shift is not. This way, TX frequency also changing during the pass.

awesome! And a PITA contact to boot! Yeeeeehah!

Ok Mike... Now we'll wait to see if you buy an arrow antenna and start adding satellite videos! 😂. Congrats, and 73s N8SGM.

nice, I struggle to get calls that fast. If the satellite is working people are on them.

MAN! I will do this before I die, hopefully.

That was awesome.

Saw your contact's video, KC0ECQ, and your contact. Sats are fun. My arrow is on a pole and rotator with a unit that follows the sat's pass from the computer. Fun stuff. Hope you enjoyed it. 73. Bob WB6TIS

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

yeah his video was a lot better than mine lol! He's a pro.

@KC0ECQ-HamRadioEndeavors

10 ай бұрын

@@hamradiotubeThat’s the beauty, there’s something to learn from everyone. It’s because of you Mike that I even got back into radio. I give you full credit for that and even say it on my QRZ page. For me you are a revolutionary in the Ham world, you busted down the nerdy wall and helped make it cool. Plus you love Metal🤘🏻

Sats are incredibly fun and a great backup plan for when the HF band conditions are no good. You do have to learn to talk and listen faster than a LaGuardia ATC controller.

@KC0ECQ-HamRadioEndeavors

10 ай бұрын

You got that right!

Good thing you wore your Goonies shirt!

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

One Eyed Willie was on my side for sure.

Mike, I own the same antenna and the Kenwood TH D72A. Both new but I like so many hams have no idea what cables, cords, headset, splitter, Sony recorder to use? Dozens of videos but no one has taken the time to provide Amazon links for the various items needed. I have contacted 3 ham clubs in WA. State.. no one chases after the birds. If you could find someone that could talk about equipment (slowly and provide Amazon links for the cables cords etc. ). You would be doing a service to fellow hams. Thank you, KA7MUB

The things these techs can to these days!

What equipment did you use to communicate with the ISS? I want to try too

New subscriber here. I have a baofeng UV-9R. I am extremely eager to get an antenna so I can listen to the ISS

Sure you did!?.... The camera just happened to overheat! ... Ha ha... 😂 Cool stuff. Congrats man.

Really? Can I say your camera man was genius. Has that word been used too often? "Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup!"

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Haha, biased much lol!

You always remember your first time.

Hopefully your next thing is to talk to one of the astronauts as they pass overhead, do an APRS contact and hopefully you'll catch them when they do a SSTV series of passes. Now that's fun

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

That would be cool to talk to one of the astronauts. I def won't be doing any APRS any time soon though. Not my cup of tea at all.

@walteredwards544

10 ай бұрын

@@hamradiotube I once heard one of our astronauts calling cq and making contacts from horizon to horizon. She was knocking they pileup out. I do think you might like the SSTV events though. I downloaded the Robot 36 app on my phone and you can use any HT radio along with your arrow antenna and decode the signal. They normally have between 5 to 10 posters.

That's how you get hooked on Satellites. Nice Job Mike .73 K1ROO

Whooopeeee!!!!!!!

i love the shoes

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Aren’t they awesome!?

What are those black things parallel to the 70cm elements?

@B.Murphy

10 ай бұрын

Not bragging, maybe bragging, my first QSO was on SO-50. Was only interested in sat work at the beginning. Made the qso, now I'm just obsessed with ALL things radio. Great stuff!

lol! "come to butthead..."

they show so many ants which model is this ? I can find anyone local to guide me to getting setup to work sats

I thought we were getting trolled until you said you had the audio haha.

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

dude I was so angry we lost the footage! Super glad I bought the mics I use though.

You are relatively down the road from me. We should play radio together sometime!

Dang those overheating cameras!!

"Come to Butt-head..." only a 1990s kid will know what that means. LOL! Which frequency did you use?

He's on the satellite radio. (Sung to the tune I am sure Mike knows)

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

I'm not following that one...

@noel-thatguykf5slk166

10 ай бұрын

@@hamradiotube Wall of Voodoo

Hot dang!!!

cool beans

Did a neighbor call the po po ?

Mike, I don't think moving back and forth 10 feet is going to make a difference. 😆

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

Dude I gained like 4 feet of elevation!!

Good job broo from YD5NTP

So you got NA1SS, huh?

Are you getting ready for a moon bounce during the eclipse next year?

@ScottWalton

10 ай бұрын

I’m wondering if there will be any ham events during the eclipse. I’m traveling to a place where there will be four minutes of totality and thinking there must be some kind of special ham related events that will happen during that time.

@hamradiotube

10 ай бұрын

I’m told EME gets the ladies. I might have to look into it.

@hazratmuhazmat8831

10 ай бұрын

@@hamradiotube When you moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that amore!

The ai said: these videos are fakes.

Just saying....Not all of us are boys...

Brain cancer is coming

GREAT JOB!👍🤛🛰🛰🛰🛰

Congratulations!!!

What equipment did you use to communicate with the ISS? I want to try too

@danielvd77

2 ай бұрын

watch the video ?!