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    FOX-1B Amateur Satellite.

    I friend of mine told me he has been having fun working a ham radio satellite called FOX-1B, so I gave it a try yesterday. I made 3 contacts during a morning pass, that lasted about 10 minutes. I worked guys in Ohio, North Jersey, and Michigan. If you want to give it a try, the mode is FM. The uplink is 435.250 MHZ with a 67.0 tone. Downlink is 145.960. I was using an Icom 706 with a 15EL yagi for the uplink, and another 706 with a ground plane for the downlink. But, I read that it is possible to work it with a duel band HT on close passes. Go to N2YO.com where you can track the bird, and get a lot of cool info. http://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=18

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    Cool George, satellites are a part of ham radio I haven't dived into much yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WZ7U View Post
    Cool George, satellites are a part of ham radio I haven't dived into much yet.
    I used to play around with Russian RS-12, back in the 90's. It's dead now. 15 meters up, 10 down. SSB. Now it's just part of the space junkyard circling the earth.

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    I have an FT-726R with HF, 2 and 432 modules, the full duplex Sat TRX board and a CW filter installed.

    A second one has 6, 2 and 440 modules plus a Piexx tone encoder. No Sat board or filters.

    Methinks I'm going to need another tone encoder.
    "Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."

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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    I have an FT-726R with HF, 2 and 432 modules, the full duplex Sat TRX board and a CW filter installed.

    A second one has 6, 2 and 440 modules plus a Piexx tone encoder. No Sat board or filters.

    Methinks I'm going to need another tone encoder.
    I've got a Yaesu 736r with 2m, 1.25m, 70cm, and 6 meter modules.

    I just need to put out my 70cm loop and I think I can make that sat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KD8TUT View Post
    I've got a Yaesu 736r with 2m, 1.25m, 70cm, and 6 meter modules.

    I just need to put out my 70cm loop and I think I can make that sat.
    If they would have offered an HF module for that rig I don't think I'd own anything else. As it stands I think I've worked out how to convert one of my 726's 2M modules to 222. That will be a fun project.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KD8TUT View Post
    I've got a Yaesu 736r with 2m, 1.25m, 70cm, and 6 meter modules.

    I just need to put out my 70cm loop and I think I can make that sat.
    I'm thinking about getting a dual band vertical. Trying to track this thing with a yagi is a real pita.

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