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<div>You rally should get a Yagi put up, if you want to do this right, but the VERY least a good Ground Plane.</div>
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<div>You can be quite successful with this idea; but you gotta' do it RIGHT.</div>
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<div>I have been thinking EXACTLY this idea; and EXACTLY the same Subject; the ISS; on 145.825MHz.</div>
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<div>My old iMac; DV; DIED recently, right when I was about to get things going with a PK-900...now; dead in the water.</div>
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<div>I was going to run APRS on Port 2, and a Downlink GATE to 148.825MHz, on Port 1, but no tranmit /uplink, because I only have a Scanner to use. </div>
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<div><br> REF: APRS Satellite w/ Rubber Duck?</div>
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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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