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Submitted by HorusT on Sat, 16/08/2008 - 02:36.

I am new to Amateur Satellites Monitoring and have been able to listen to AO-51, AO-27, and SO-50 with an Arrow Antenna and Yaseu receiver. I was wondering if I would be able to listen to satellites on a geostationary orbit such UFO-2, UFO-7, Fltsatcom 8  in North America. I would like to build a UHF Helical Antenna to use with those satellites. I am new to satellite monitoring and it is a bit confusing where you would point the antenna. I am familiar with azimuth and elevation. I have used Orbitron, SatcomDX, and wxtrack to track orbital satellites.  I have visited UHF-Satcom, Amstat, and Radio reference home pages.  Your knowledge and expertise would be appreciated.

Thanks 

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Hi Horust, Its worth

Submitted by pjm on Sun, 17/08/2008 - 09:43.

Hi Horust,

Its worth visiting the #hearsat IRC chat, you can use the Live Hearsat Chat Room link on the left hand side. You should be able to monitor the satellites you mention from N. America. To start you could build a simple yagi or a biquad antenna as the helical needs a little more effort to build. To peak on the fltsatcom 8 you can use the 250.550 MHz downlink beacon.

regards, Paul.

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Listening to Uhf-Satcom

Submitted by HorusT on Sun, 17/08/2008 - 19:34.

Paul,

Thank you for the advise. I will do that. Your'e right the helical antenna looks difficult to make. I will try a yagi  antenna. I could not find those satellites on wxtrack, orbitron, and gpredict. Therefore, I could not get the azimuth and elevation for my location to aim the antenna. 

best regards, HorusT

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