Successfully defeated my learning overwhelm and inertia today thanks to some input here on satellite listening!

First bird heard was SO-50 and then later astronaut Mike Fincke making contacts on the space station. With hams from New Jersey, CT, and Quebec. Clear as a bell on just 18° elevation with a Comet SBB5 mag mount dual band whip, Radioddity GD77 and opengd77!

Another listen with a teacher tomorrow!

#satellites #aos #iss #SO50 #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmSat #opengd77 #gd77

Today i finalized my dual-band hand-held antenna and made some tests with LEO sats.

I could make my first QSO on #SO50.

It's quite a challenge to deal with azimuth, elevation, polarization ... and calling

The Anytone D878uvii is a great transceiver with its sat mode ! No need to care about the frequencies configuration and Doppler effect. It even provides real time indication on azimuth and elevation.

That was fun !

G0FMZ in the I072ww log. #so50 #mw1bqo
Moin. Was ne Überraschung. DL2GRC auf #SO50 gerade gearbeitet. Kenne Nina schon vom #QO100 - Tnx 4 QSO

This is true. And: This wasn't a sked. It was a big surpise. :)

@DJ7NT

#SO50 #TnxQSO #TnxQSL #UV5R #RT24 #DIYXYAGI

I managed 37 QSOs through 10 🛰️ LEO satellite this week. (Jan 28..Feb 4) #SevenDaysOfSats.

New entities worked:
🌍 DXCC: Z3 🇲🇰
🌐 Grids: JN13, JN81, KN01, KN02, KN04

Thanks to #F4DEU, #IW7EAP, #YU4SMT, #YU0W, #YU1EW and #YT1CI

#AO91 #CAS3H #RS44 #JO97 #XW2A #SO50 #FO29 #ISS #FO118 #PO101

#AMSAT #hamr

Just tried to work #SO-50 with the new tape measure yagi.  I don't know if it's because I'm not used to working with a beam or if the bird was quiet but I didn't pick anything up at all.  I know it's not super performant on 70cm, so I'll try it with #AO-85 on its next pass.
Was just trying to work #SO-50.  I was mid QSO with a station in Canada when I got my beard stuck in the PTT switch.  Threw the radio, probably cussed on the air, immediate LOS with the bird... So grumpy right now.  !amateur