Dear AMSAT members. I have question about m2inc company yagi antennas. If i want to orient my antennas to the angle of 0 azimuth. what should I do? where is the azimuth=0 for the yaesu g-5500 and unitrack and antennas itself? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks for attention. Im looking froward to hearing from you. Best Regards.
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Dean Maluski <[email protected]> wrote: > Realizing I need to crawl before I can walk but need to have a goal. > > I've grown a strong interest in working SATS, have a few bucks and am > rebuilding my station for SATS from the ground up. > Been reading the G Gould Smith "Getting Started..." book I picked up in > Boxboro, MA at a fest a couple months ago. > > I replaced my Kenwood 440 with a TS-2000 without the 1.2 GHz option, > thinking I may add 1.2 GHz next spring. > > Added a 4 inch conduit to my tower with a 7/8 hard line and a run of > Jetstream LMR 400+ tagged RG-8U on jacket but specs are better than LMR > 400 figure I'll use the Jetstream for 2 meter, or transmit side of > things. > > Took down my 20 meter monoband beam, Purchased and mounted a Yaesu > G-5500 (Separated). > Ordered a Gulf-Alpha Gen purpose 2 meter H/V 440 V yagi, yes I also want > to work land locked stuff too. > > LINUX!! Linux!! LINUX if possible ONLY-Seem good to go now with GPREDICT > 1.1 and 1.2, 1.2 seems to not update rotor correctly but just got it > going this morning. Running 1.1 on another machine over LAN and seems to > work better. > > I have a 40 foot 1943 steel tower for what it's worth, it's a thing of > beauty!! > > My vision is to eventually move the Gulf Alpha antenna to the center > mast. > > Here is where my questions come to play....???? > What do I want for bird anteena's? > My biggest interest is packet and flying mailboxes/HEO/Eventually EME > possibly. > > Thinking my next antenna purchase would be the Gulf Alpha 440 and 2 > meter circular polarity antennas and the phasing assy to switch > polarity???? > > I have ample 4 port switches that can be used to switch at tower but of > course less is more as I don't want to go switch crazy and add more > attenuation to system than absolutely necessary. > > I see SSB has some nice pre-amps, NEED I suspect eventually.. > > I'm getting stir crazy waiting for arrival of Yagi, one more day on > tower and I should be complete except for arrival of Gulf Alpha Yagi > that he is building. > > Not really sure what my question is. Reading and reading, trying not to > buy too ,many unnecessary components while I impatiently wait for > antenna to arrive but forward thinking as I finalize tower today, need > to re-mount my WX station and security camera. Also adding a camera > behind garage to look up at top of tower so I can see what the heck is > going on with rotors-COOL! > > In mounting WX station, need to stay high as possible but of course > can't interefere with back end of Yagi's > > Antenna advice, any advise if someone has the time? Hope to QSO soon > with ya'll on the birds. Been listening on a vertical but question the > doppler accuracy so have not attempted to transmit yet. > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
