Congrats on working Japan! I worked Japan on several digital modes but no voice modes yet. Its not as far as many other places I worked but it seems more difficult. I worked the east and west sides of Aussie in every mode including voice and even short pass is much further than Japan. The challenge is that we have to aim almost north to reach Japan via short pass and it is almost no water for the multiple hops needed to work eastern Asia. I have to go right over Alaska and the Bering Strait to reach Eastern Asia.
@kishor_VU2MZT The FM Repeater is where the Astronauts pop in. Make casual QSOs with other Hams and the Astronauts pop in from time to time. 145.990 pl 67 tx and 437.800 RX
@kishor_VU2MZT there are only other frequencies that scheduled contacts like schools use. The only way to talk to an Astronaut not scheduled is when the pop in on the FM Repeater...
@gregorygolden3461 I'm not giving up on testing the Elk. I'm gonna exclusively use it on the ISS the next week unless it's really bad receive after a few more passes. One pass of each of the birds I tried isn't really enough to 100% give my opinion but seeing the ISS and pointing at it as it went through the tops of trees usually doesn't phase the arrow and it wasn't hearing it so much that I switched to the arrow...
I have that same antenna that I use for working satellites.I Have the coax running down to a splitter that goes into two baofengs one for uplink the other for the downlink. Works great!
@psmith669 that was Woody Hoburg last year he's home safe! Ironically I made this short video a few hours before I had a Contact this morning with Astronaut Mathew Dominick who's current aboard the ISS!
Do they just come over the repeater up/down, or is there a special up link used? I got overly confused when trying to decifer the listing for programming.
@kaelanakvik6313 just make casual QSOs with other Hams on the FM Repeater 145.990 up and 437.810 down. The astronauts drop in on the FM Repeater from time to time and when they do you will know it! The other frequencies are used for Scheduled School contacts mostly
KFØLFT WAS ME. I HEARD YA HERE IN MINNESOTA. I FORGOT THE CHARLIE IN YOUR CALL SIGN TWICE. LMAO. WE'LL HOPFULLY GET YA ON THE NEXT PASS AND GET IT RIGHT. IM USING THE SAME ANTENNA WITH AN ICOM 9700
@bulldogbrower6732 I have a video on the OPENGD77 Firmware that explains that. The frequencies can be easier searched and I've mentioned it many times.
I love this satellite. It is actually easier to operate than AO-91. You can learn simple rules of operation by observing it. But you need full duplex. Otherwise it will be a waste of time. 73 de RA3VGD
@@w8cptCptDon to make a call on a satellite that almost no one works on, you need to hear yourself. even if i can hear myself, during the few seconds while i'm making a call, i have to adjust the antenna position because the signal is not very strong. this is a feature of so-121 you can make a call while the satellite is broadcasting the carrier signal - it will be a useless call. for some time after the carrier signal, your signal cannot be broadcast either. the satellite pauses. this satellite has its own behavior. you can understand them only using full duplex
I'm having a similar problem. I downloaded and installed AllStarLink3 -arm63-3.0.11 and went through the setup following Freddie Mack's video. I can't get the echo back functions to work and when I look at the Allmon3 dashboard it shows transmitting and I hear nothing but static on the HT. During the few brief periods of not transmitting I could monitor other nodes so I'm pretty sure it will work IF I can stop the transmit. I have some ferrite beads I will try.
@@w8cptCptDon Rats. Mine is the latest firmware and has all the updates as of now.. It used to work with the HamVOIP and Asterisk 1.4 but we moved and it sat for a couple years before I tried getting it going again, it didn't work so I updated the firmware. I'll keep after it. Thanks Greg -N4RAI
@gomez9389 Good luck! I've build a few allstar nodes but I'm not a pro by far! I actually made this post to show in a bug report on the allstar3 github...
@r.digirolamo3839 I believe I said at least once I make lots of QSOs on 5 watts too...so yes 5 watts isn't much different than the 10 watts if you were asking about HTs. If you didn't watch the video or any other of my videos then please do as both will answer you question...
