ISS Fan Club

I tried without success to contact the ISS using a discone antenna and 50 watts power. ISS signal got to over S9.

I've constructed a J-Pole antena and it works very good. 5-9 signal.
You can see the antena in the next URL:

73's
XQ7UP

My J-Pole Antenna Picture.

I use the arrow dual band yagi (2M side only) and a kenwood TH-D7Ag ht to make APRS contacts via ISS. It even works from inside my house on overhead passes above say 30 degrees elevation. It is great for visual passes as well because you can see the ISS right down the boom while you're holding it. From the mobile I use a kenwood TM-D700A and a simple 1/4 wave verticle on the roof. This works ok but only on lower elevation passes because of the low angle of radiation from the verticle. See you on ISS. 73 de W2CO

I have used my 11 element beam and Yeasu 897-d with no success
Tryed the Icom w-32 a , the Yeasu Ft 50 r HT's and an Icom 2100 with a 17" whip on the truck with no luck.So I really have no antenna I use for talking to the ISS only at the ISS.If only Bill knew how hard we tried he would probably come have lunch with us HI HI.Welcome home Bill , Valery and Marcos

6 element Quad beam (fed for vertical polarization) fixed horizon with azimuth control only via TV antenna rotor.

A good, cheap homebrew option (RadioShack now charges $25 for the "raw material," which is an outdoor mast mount antenna for FM broadcast band. Successful QSO on first attempt on a high pass in February, it can also receive aprs packet on passes as low as 2 degrees. Can be hand-held, but does not break down for storage.

i use V2R on top of the house with ar 147+ 7-65 watts and also i have used 1/4 wave mag mount on 5 watt HT !!!

Both times that I have worked the ISS, I was using a Yaesu FT-50R (5 watts) with an arrow 2 antenna. The first contact was a 8 degrees max elevation pass.

Paul
kb3nds

VHF x-Quad 12 elements and UHF x-Quad 18 elements both made by Wimo and using a Az/El rotor system.

http://www.wimo.com/antxquad_e.htm

On the car I have just a 1/4Lambda wipe.
73's de HB9OAY

I use the Hy-Gain Oscar pair (circular polarized 30 el on 70cm and 16 el on 2M) with mast mounted Mirage preamps and auto-track az/el rotors. I don't really need that much for ISS but I work many of the other satellites too. With this set I routinely work ISS to less than 2 degrees elevation.

My antenna since today is an doublecrossdipole, circular right, and the antenna is 1,3 mtr high and O = 1,10 mtr and i have mounted on my area mount on the top. The doublecrossdipole has 4 dipol elements and 2 reflectors.

At the moment i am mounting the antenna on my area mount. I am happy when it is mounted and when i can listen with the antenna.

So this is my new antenna.

N5VHO it is a good idea to make this voting. So we all can see which antennas will use. TNX

73de SWL-CHMY.

When I made contact with NA1SS I was using an IC-T2H (6 W) and and Arrow Antenna beam with the 70 cm elements taken off. Az-el tracking without a rotor!

Crossed dipoles
73 HP1AC, Cam

I've used a Maldol AH-510R 6m/2m/70cm telescoping whip for my first voice QSO in December 2005, then my Arrow Antennas 2m/70cm handheld Yagi for my two voice QSOs in March (21st and 27th). All contacts were made using an Icom IC-T7H HT (about 6W output). I suppose I could have used the "Yagi with Azimuth and Elevation Tracking", since I'm holding the Yagi with my right hand as I work the ISS or other satellites, but I didn't think that answer was intended for those with handheld antennas.

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/

J-Pole leaning on balcony of 1st floor apartment.

Dave K
www.KB8PXV.com