Hi Trevor, Just FYI, I've posted a detailed description of how to set up a station for working the SSB (and also FM) sats on my web page at:
http://kb5wia.blogspot.com/2010/10/satellite-portable-station.html The station consists of twin Yaesu FT-817ND radios and an Elk antenna, and a number of us in the community are using such systems for portable and home ops on SSB sats with very good success. This article is also in the AMSAT Journal: [David A Palmer, KB5WIA. "Twins! A Backpack-Portable Full Duples Satellite Station with Dual FT-817ND's". AMSAT Journal 2011 34:14-16. ], for anyone that's interested. Best 73 de Dave KB5WIA On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Trevor . <[email protected]> wrote: > The AMSAT new starters page at > http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/information/faqs/ > > is a valuable resource but it seems to be all about FM sats, there's little > showing newcomers how to use the Linear Transponder SSB/CW sats. > > Why is this, well clearly because no-one, myself included, can be bothered to > write something that can be made available on the AMSAT site. > > There is of course some infromation scattered around the web that show what > can be done with simple equipment on the Linear Transponder satellites such > as: > > AO7 from Indoors on 2Watts and Arrow antenna. > http://observations.biz/Observations_from_Norway/Observations_04_01_2009.htm > > The LA2QAA portable AO-7 Station > http://observations.biz/Observations_from_Norway/observations_14_06_2008.htm > > POWER. How much is enough? > http://www.observations.biz/Observations_from_Norway/howmuchpowerisenough.htm > > 73 Trevor M5AKA _______________________________________________ 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
