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Ham Radio |
Jul 2 2009, 08:31 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Anyone on UMSF into Ham Radio?
I'm thinking of getting in to it, but only as a means to an ends (setting up a groundstation for Balloon flights, and Cubesats) I'm booked into the Amsat UK conference at the end of July in Guildford. I know a few of the CUSpaceflight badgerworks guys are going to be there. My current plan is to grab a fairly cheap UHF/VHF handheld to get my license with. A hand-held UHF/VHF arrow antennae to 'manually' listen in to sats to begin with - which can then be mounted on a rotator at some future point, and then upgrade to a better receiving set at some point. Doug |
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Jul 2 2009, 04:43 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Back in the day when I worked for NOAA we had ham setups on some of our ships. Never got too serious about it (i.e., logging contacts, follow-up mail confirmations, etc.) but it was a fun way to pass the time during long nights out at sea.
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