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Garmin has updated their three tiered plans, both annual and monthly, to only a month-to-month only at a new price rate while still offering three tiers. Now what I like about the change is that they added an "Enabled Plan". Previously when one suspended the account nothing worked with a...

Hi All, For those of you who are either new to ham radio or looking to expand your skills, exploring satellite QSOs can be incredibly fun. I made a YouTube video that serves as a beginners guide to getting started with ham radio satellite QSOs. It covers everything from the basic equipment...

Hi guys, This kind of antenna is commonly used by brazilian truck drivers to communicate with UHF Milsat. In Brazil this satellite is known as "bolinha" and you probably already heard about it. I'm wondering if this antenna design really makes sense for satellite communication or if it was...

Greetings Friends, I am finally moving into a house of my own, and am facing an all-too common issue: HIGH CABLE BILLS I have been a believer in free OTA antenna TV for many years, but where I am moving, I receive a total of 2 TV channels (and the sub-channels are pointless) so I believe I am...

Okay, I'm confused on how this works. I just made a contact on so 50... I thought the duplex mode was active, I could still hear the squelch in my headphones when I keyed up... But I didn't hear myself talking on the rx side... Someone did respond to me so I know I got through. How can I...

"The Winter SWL Fest is a conference of radio hobbyists of all stripes, from DC to daylight. Every year scores of hobbyists descend on the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs for a weekend of camaraderie. The Fest is sponsored by NASWA, the North American Shortwave Association, but it covers much...

As soon as 19th November 2018 launch of 4. polish satellite - PW-Sat2 - is scheduled. It’s primary mission is a technological tests of sail-based deorbit system. The PW-Sat2 is one of the payloads in SpaceFlight SSO-A The SmallSat Express mission aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Please be...

I recently made a V-Dipole antenna using a set of rabbit ear antennas after looking at an article I found over at the rtl-sdr blog. Simple NOAA/Meteor Weather Satellite Antenna: A 137 MHz V-Dipole He was using it to rx weather satellite images, I figured if it is good enough for that maybe I...

This satellite tutorial covers satellite transponder,satellite frequency bands,network, parts,orbits,services,satellite types,capacity allocation,network configurations,applications etc. Refer: Satellite tutorial | What is satellite | tutorials

New to satellite "scanning" / "monitoring" and did a little Googl'ing around and found this frequency range for Iridium satellites. Where's the best info out there to monitor/decode/demodulate any of these comms?

I Have tried to receive the NOAA APT satellites on the 136-137 MHz range but i can never see the picture (its attached) i use MultiPSK and use a TYT TH-9800 Quad band radio can anyone help!

I want to get into "APT" viewing on the 136-137 MHz range due to my intrist in the HF weather satellite frequencies, however, many pictures I decode on HF are charts, or other non-satellite picture, but I did recieve a satellite picture at 8:00 PM 1/26/2015 on a frequency I have stored...

This is a powerpoint presentation of a quadrifilar helix antenna for 136 mhz. I built it from parts at my local hardware store. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83615241/quadrifilar%20helix.ppt

They look cool ... they get you into the world of high gain on 2M and/or 440 ... they cost little ... Just don't try to get one past TSA at the airport ... (grin) Several tape measure beam DIY project plans - as well as a story of how one group made a handheld beam out of barbed wire and...

Hi folks, I gave a presentation entitled "Hacking the Wireless World with Software Defined Radio" at Ruxcon 2011. Part of this covers how one can analyse and demodulate various signals (e.g. those from a satellite) without precise a priori knowledge of modulation/coding parameters. I used a USRP...

I have a 2m band Icom handheld radio and was hoping to catch the ISS in its pass over my school this Thursday. Do y'all have any tips? I have the included ("Rubber Ducky?") antenna. I know it's possible to catch the ISS this way just not the details.. Oh and what's the usual doppler shift from...

Hi there - I was looking around for this the last couple of days and didn't turn anything up, i may be possibly missing something though too, so let me know if i am. Is there any way to query the database for frequencies that aren't associate with a state or region? I've specifically been...

I'm working on building some yagi antennas based on the AMSAT instructions, but I'm having trouble finding something to use for the elements. Radio Shack doesn't sell aluminum ground wire anymore and finding it locally has been somewhat difficult. Before I go any further, I want to get some...

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I wrote a blog post today on decoding NOAA APT Weather Satellite Photos: http://radioreference.blogspot.com/ Enjoy! Lindsay