Yes I tried a few simple antenna configurations, simple home made dipole, home made ground plan, various antennas that come with SDR dongles. For the fun of it I connected the SDR to my 2 meter band (144 MHz to 148 MHz) 70 Centimeters (420-450 MHz) out door ham antenna. Certainly does not receive well our 902 - 927 frequency's of interest, and there huge cable loss with cable being used.However it's mounted on the roof 25 ft from the wind transmitter and maybe 50 feet from ISS transmitter. Direct line of sight nothing in the way , best signal level so far. What's frustrating at the moment is that if I tune frequency one or the other for best signal, it's supper reliable almost 0 packet loss. 12 hour test of ISS had only 14 missed packets! If vantage transmits every 2.5 sec 12 hours is app 17,280 packets. That's an insane .1 % loss or 99.9% good RX receive percentage . But so far can not balance for ISS and Wind . And I love "toying around and for fun and learning" so it's fine with me :)
On Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 1:59:50 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > Ok, not so good idea thus... > > Paul, did you play with your antenna setup? I have my antenna situated on > a metal lid of a round cookies drum. Receiving my four Davis transmitters > goes better when the radio signals go through a stone wall than to an > antenne situated in the neighbourhoud of metal anti-theft racks in front of > the windows. > > Luc > >
