Listening to satellites for $30

Re:Listening to satellites for $30 by ubercow on Friday November 27, 2015 @06:25AM (#10636842)

Any advice on what type of antenna to use for this?

It says a "simple wire antenna" is good enough in most cases, but I'm sure you could get a much clearer signal with something specialized.

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Re:Listening to satellites for $30 by akhenakh on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:54AM (#10637283)

Author here, based on what you are trying to listen, different antennas may be better than others.

I use a discone antenna at home, but the picture you see on the blog was made with a wire antenna not especially dedicated to sats (a 2m/70cm wire JPole) outdoor.

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Re:Listening to satellites for $30 by wwkeyboard on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:46AM (#10637260)

A Yagi antenna is probably the easiest directional, high gain antenna to build. There are a bunch of different ways to build them. Here is one using a tape measure http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Tape-Measure-Antenna/

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Re:Listening to satellites for $30 by RX14 on Friday November 27, 2015 @11:08AM (#10637783)

Keep in mind that the signal from the satellite will be polarised, and that the polarisation will change as the satellite moves through the sky. To get the best results you will need to rotate your yagi to find the best polarisation.

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Re:Listening to satellites for $30 by batat on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:03AM (#10637093)

You can use specialized beer- or even diet-dr-pepper-satellite-antenna https://v1.std3.ru/96/24/1443432707-96242a90aed02e25c975fc5c...

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