Great Satellite System, But Low Skill Set
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128
SN
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A
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K
2
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X-Ray
B7.0
Wind
391.1 km/s
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80/40m Fair 30/20m Good 17/15m Good 12/10m Fair
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80/40m Good 30/20m Good 17/15m Good 12/10m Poor
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Hello, I have the following equipment:
Icom IC-9700
CSN Technologies S.A.T
Yaesu G-5500 AZ & EL Rotors on a 19-foot tower
Geochron Atlas 2 4k World Clock (shows selected satellite "footprints" in real time)
I'm very new to satellite operations. I have the best equipment I could buy, but I really need to increase my skills. Here are my challenges:
My 9700 radio waterfall display looks like it has 18dB of attenuation in satellite mode so it's difficult to find transponder conversations. I like to do testing and experimenting at night because there's very few if anyone on at 2 or 3am. I'm having a difficult time "finding" my uplink signal to hear myself on the downlink. I know for transponders, to select REV on the radio to lock the uplink freq with the downlink freq, but I still don't hear myself. Since I'm using the S.A.T., I don't have to worry about doppler shift.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Here's a picture of my S.A.T. browser display.
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