Working AO 51 Earth Orbiting Satellite Using QRP Equipment

Using 2 hand held transceiver's into an Arrow satellite antenna to speak around Europe via AO-51 Earth Orbiting Satellite.

My hand held transceiver's are Kenwood TH7 (UP Link) and Yaesu FT-470 (Down Link).

Stations worked from my location - Yorkshire England.
1) IZ3ALU - ITALY

2) F0DIH/p - FRANCE

3) SP9FPP - POLAND

4) ON4CAP/p _ BELGIUM

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 2e0hts
• Radio ham
• Satellite
• Ham
• QRP
• Yaesu
• Kenwood
• TH7e
• FT-470
• Arrow antenna
• AO-51
• FM
• Space
• orbit
• qso
• IZ3ALU
• F0DIH
• SP9FPP
• ON4CAP

[MarvinMcGill]

Great vid! I have a Kenwood TH-f6a how did u make your holder for the f6?

[2e0hts]

@MarvinMcGill tnx, I made it out of ally sheet, nice and easy to fold etc. Its rivited to the boom extension which is also ally folded into an L shape.

I am lucky as I am a qualified Welding and Fabrication Engineer/Lecturer, so its just a bit of playing around with metal hi hi.

Good Luck and all the best

[dorslv]

Great vid, I see that you are using two HT's wouldn't the TH-F6A (using a duplexer?) be able to handle SAT Comms by itself? I only have TH-F6A, the other half won't let me get two ;-)

[2e0hts]

Tnx, you can use the one rig but it is easiest when you can TX on one and RX on the other. You hear when your in to the bird as well as changing down freq adjusting Doppler same time as TXing.  But single unit and duplexer will do the job but not for me!

[PAULM6PIP]

great job just getting into working satelites my self 73's de M6PIP

[2e0hts]

Tnx Paul, will listen out for you. G L

[sweetgyy]

nice .

[2e0hts]

@walter50m Hi Walter,

I imported the antenna from US - Antenna Warehouse. The model is ARROW MK2.

G L & 73

Simon

[laakman]

Way cool! Amazing that you need so much gain to receive, but you can sometimes hit the sats with with a rubber duck!

[dorslv]

Thx again call sign is kd0iqr, truck'n round the country need'n better antenna, wiped out last one on tree wanna try a beam on top of some mtn's 73.