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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/08/2017 3:59 PM, Andrew Rich
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<pre wrap="">Anyone running sat gates for ISS / NO-84 ?
Andrew VK4TEC
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Not yet, but in the apparent absence of a working Igate in South
Australia I'm thinking about it- probably with a <a
href="http://microsat.com.pl/product_info.php?currency=USD&products_id=100&language=en">Microsat
WX3in1</a> .<br>
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At present my efforts to have a beacon successfully digipeated from
ISS have relied on the Igates in WA or VK3KAW in Victoria (who seems
to be off air at present anyway). The optimum orbit for a
successful login on findu ISS page using the generous facility
offered by the owners of these stations largely for the enjoyment of
others are complex, and it's not as easy as it looks from a quick
and simplistic glance at Orbitron or any other program. <br>
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In my experience, and remembering the situation I have described
above, I've never had any success with less than 25 watts into a 1/4
wave vertical, and I've been doing this for a few years now. If
you can reliably get a beacon to ISS with five or ten watts when the
bird is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 KM away then I'm
interested. <br>
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73<br>
Terry<br>
VK5ATN<br>
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