Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by threeio on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:15AM (#16376859)

I’ll toss in that reddit has one of the better ham radio communities without the nonsense old man drama of other sites..

http://reddit.com/r/amateurradio

73, N3LGA

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by vitaflo on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:31PM (#16377502)

Agreed. Not a fan of most reddit communities (hivemind) but this one is far better than the cesspool found on other ham radio sites. It's what ham radio should be about, helping others in a fun hobby.

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by madengr on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:26PM (#16377454)

Though not as entertaining as 7.200 MHz. KD4HSO

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by radioo75555 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:43PM (#16377604)

What's on 7.2? I rarely listen to HF.

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by madengr on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:09PM (#16377816)

A couple of lids, trying there hardest to get fined by the FCC by trolling hams. I have an SDR here:

http://64.136.200.36:8073/

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by BlankMike on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:43PM (#16379200)

Wow. I just used your SDR (totally cool). What I am hearing right now is simply horrific (LSB brings it in loud and clear). If these guys have tickets, the FCC needs to pull them.

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by madengr on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:03PM (#16379899)

They do, at least one of them does. It's a daily occurrence. As long as it stays at 7.200 MHz, I suppose it's just entertainment. FCC enforcement (as long as you don't interface with emergency comms) is pretty much non-existent.

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by lighttower on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:37AM (#16382628)

Phenomenal SDR. How do you get such wide bandwidth on a single antenna?

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by madengr on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:06AM (#16383656)

Just an active loop antenna.

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Re:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station by radioo75555 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:42PM (#16377589)

/r/rtlsdr is good too

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