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I use the QSL card creator. Yeah, it only prints on one side, but I just treat it like a postcard. You know, put a personal note there. "You were my first satellite contact", "I was up in your area back in .... beautiful part of the US", etc. Just use a card stock paper when printing it out...

Just last week, a man came to my door. He was asking me my name. I asked him why, as I had never seen him before. He said he was a fellow ham, and after hearing my callsign on the local club net, decided to use QRZ, to get my name, and address. He then Google mapped my address, and in his words...

I was just curious, if anyone on this forum, has used the QRP frequencies, and made a successful contact through AO-51. From what I read, they are 145.880 uplink, and 435.150 downlink.

Here's my question to you... What radio are you going to be using? does the radio automatically tune down for the doppler shifting? If no, then you're going to be pretty busy manually tuning down your radio, while rotating your antenna.

I made a complete contact today with WV3V about 130 miles away from me. I have to say, I'm not doing to bad, for just a 5 watt handheld, and a Diamond RH77CA rubber whip. I'm figuring out how to hold it, and how if I move it just a half an inch or so, makes a lot of difference in reception. I'm...

A little digging, and listening to some audio files, and I have found who I made contact with... XE2/WD9EWK - Based in Arizona, but vacationing in Mexicali (Hence the XE2/ at the front of his call sign). Good times...

Moleculo, Please check you PM's..I posted a question to you.. Brian (KG6EAK)

Well, since NA1SS is in packet mode for the day, I decided to try a different satellite. I chose AO-27 I prepped I tuned I received I called out I got a response:thumbup:. An XM (canada) station, hit me back, and then......He died out during our QSL, right before he gave me his full callsign...

ISS is currently in packet mode, for those of you that have a hankering for that. Hopefully they will switch over to voice operation later on. That way, I can have another shot at a contact.

Cap. Kilowatt, Thanks for your reply. Here's what I meant 10 picofarad = 0.00001 microfarad. I meant they carry that particular cap, in an electrolytic form. (0.00001uF). Thanks for the advice, I will seek out exactly what the duplexer calls for.

I'm going to be building a homebrew satellite antenna over the weekend. I am confident that I will have little trouble doing so, in the construction of the actual antenna. I've built some different antennas in the past. Here's my problem though. In building the duplexer/diplexer, the...

Help us help you.. Are you just looking to do 2M/440? Do you want to work satellites? Is QRP (Low power) going to be your main thing? It will be with an HT... Tell us more about which parts of the hobby you wish to do, and I'm sure you'll get more than enough answers... brian

Looks like I pulled a Homer Simpson.... Thank you for the input :bdh:

Two questions... 1.) Is the aluminum tubing for the reflectors/directors, hollow? 2.) When drilling the holes for the elements to slip through, do you drill all the way through for both holes on the driven elements, or all the way through for the top part, and most of the way through, for...

I didn't get through...I didn't try either..It's about 110 outside, and I decided to wait a while. I'm going to try on the 00:51 - 00:58 (1851-1858MDT) pass here in about 20 minutes or so.... If not, I'll try again tomorrow....I'm just having fun. Laying out my compass, and marking...

1st contact a bust... I only had a 4 minute window.. I faintly heard voices. I think it was just up too high... 2nd pass @ 2:01 MDT. 7 minute window on that one....

Sorry...I assumed you were the recent contact from the Las Vegas area

Uplink - 144.490 (Transmit frequency) Downlink - 145.800 (Listening frequency)

KD0FQX, Don't you have an audio Youtube file up? I can't seem to find it any longer...

I'm going to try to contact the ISS, in the next day or two. What would you say is the proper protocol for contact? I've heard people calling CQ, and I have heard others saying QRZ (You are being called by....) Which is the proper way, or the one that is used most? Thank you...