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  1. K

    Activity???

    Holy moly I didn't realize it was so bad. No wonder I can't talk to anyone lol. Considering that SO-50 is the last FM sat repeater active (to my knowledge, I think there might actually be one other that I've never tried), you get all of these ham operators trying to use the same one and you get...
  2. K

    Activity???

    Quite surprisingly, whenever I try to talk on SO-50, there are SO MANY PEOPLE on it trying to talk at once that I can hardly get a word in edgewise. Even when people are talking on it, I can tell that more than one person is transmitting at once because of that tell-tale wobbling sound that FM...
  3. K

    Sending radio waves to outer space

    That was actually an April Fool's joke. If you look at the date, you can see it for yourself. It would be pretty awesome if it was true though lol.
  4. K

    Sending radio waves to outer space

    Shooting a signal out into space is akin to going in a perfectly spherical room and trying to shoot a randomly placed .5mm moving target with a small pistol all while being blindfolded. Oh, and even if you hit the target, it still depends on how it's feeling. Sometimes it won't even notice that...
  5. K

    Working satellites with clouds

    Wow... I didn't know that. That's strange because I heard people talking on AO-27 just like a month ago. *sigh* So with this small HT I've got, there's only a hand full of satellites left that I can operate. Are there supposed to be any new ones coming?
  6. K

    Working satellites with clouds

    I just had a quick question. I was trying to make a QSO with AO-27 just now and I couldn't hear the satellite at all. It was a perfect pass that went nearly 90 degrees above, but I could not hear a sound. There is some light cloud coverage with lots of wind, but I wouldn't think that it would be...
  7. K

    Activity???

    Well the software gives me lots of very useful information, like a list of the next visible passes in chronological order, a map of the world showing where each satellite is, doppler shift, ground tracking, list of frequencies for each satellite etc. Before I was just using an app on my phone...
  8. K

    Satellite antennas

    Why is it that people don't like the FM? I'm pretty new to satellites so I don't really understand why so many people don't like.
  9. K

    Activity???

    Alright, no more panicking lol. I finally got it working. I just downloaded GPredict and it helped me a lot.
  10. K

    We now have over 100 members!

    I'm thinking I probably was the 100th member lol.
  11. K

    Activity???

    Well we'll just have to see how it works out. I've tried about 5 times to hear some satellites but nothing has worked so far. It doesn't help a lot that the amsat website is broken haha. I've got an app on my phone that can help me out, but I guess I just need to keep trying.
  12. K

    Activity???

    Well this is really disappointing for me to hear. I have just gotten in to ham radio and satellite ops, but it looks like the crowd is already mostly gone :(. I really really wanted to make a contact with a satellite, but I'm not so sure anymore. I would at least like to try to hear some sort of...