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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/10/2017 3:49 PM, sergio_101 wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I have been lurking here and there for awhile, and
i'm not sure i have seen this go by..
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<div>I am just starting to play with satellites, and I can
receive packets from ISS just fine, i just can't hit it.</div>
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<div>Are there any other satellites carrying APRS that i might
have more luck with?</div>
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<div>Every time I start googling around, it seems the
information is extremely dated.</div>
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<div>thanks!</div>
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Very very unlikely! The ISS is by far the strongest and most
easily received "satellite". <br>
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The rubber duck is an absolutely HORRIBLE antenna - the thing
actually has NEGATIVE gain relative to even a simple dipole or
quarter-wave whip. It's more like a badly-shielded dummy load than
an antenna. You are reducing the already marginal transmit power
output of the hand-held by at least 60%-70% compared to even a
simple 19" quarter-wave whip <br>
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At the least, you want a full-size 19" whip, or far better, a
light-weight hand-holdable 3 element Yagi like an Arrow antenna. <br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%">Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
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Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/map"><http://wa8lmf.net/map></a><br>
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Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm"><http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm></a><br>
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