Matt Blaze's web page about this says:
"an outdoor antenna with a radiation pattern favoring the satellite
is virtually mandatory. A specially-designed circularly polarized
directional antenna (such as are used by the military) is ideal but
not essential. I have not found receiver preamplifiers, however, to
be especially helpful, at least within the satellite footprints."
So maybe that will work better than your old discone.
-Ed
At 02:15 PM 3/5/2018, Eric A. Cottrell wrote:
Hello,
I thought I would give listening to the UHF Milsat listening a shot
with the R8600 and old discone. I had to turn on the preamp in the
R8600, but I was able to hear the Brazilian pirates on 255.550 MHz
FM. The signals are not quite full-quieting with some not that
strong. The signals are barely showing up on the waterfall and a
really small peak on the spectrum display. I cannot see the
transponder noise floor.
I tried the SDRPlay RSP2Pro and got similar results with the LNA
Gain of 0 and Gain Control of 49. I can adjust the Spectrum Controls
in HDSDR to see the signal peak, but it is still a weak signal.
This is the link Matt gave at his talk. http://www.crypto.com/misc/uhf-sats/
73 Eric
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