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Founder ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 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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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 ![]() |
Not me personally, but we have a Ham radio set-up at the Canberra DSN.
I'm keen to learn how it all works. ![]() |
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Newbie ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 30-July 09 From: San Diego County, CA USA Member No.: 4888 ![]() |
Not me personally, but we have a Ham radio set-up at the Canberra DSN. I'm keen to learn how it all works. ![]() Please do; when I was involved with the DSN (back in 1979) I was told by our NASA Radio Engineer all of the details I could handle. This was at NASA Ames Research Center. Something about "Hydrogen-cooled MASERs" as their preamps. In 1985 when I visited the VLA (just prior to the VLBA deployment) they used some other gas (Neon maybe?). Solid-state parametric amps was the technology that was used prior for radiotelescopes, or at least at the VLA it was. Cheers |
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