Activity on the first geo-stationary Ham-Radio satellite is full swing now !!
It's nice to see how power levels of as low as a few 100 mW with a cheap consumer satellite dish are sufficient for a transmission distance of 36.000 km ...
Several homebrew hardware projects are now also showing up and one of them is "POTY" a Dualband feed one can mount on a consumer dish.
This feed combines a 2.4 GHz right-hand circular uplink with a 10 GHz Horizontal downlink.
When I was at the "Dag van de Radio-Amateur" or "Ham Radio day" in the Netherlands recently, I've met this interesting Ham Ha, PA5HE.
He's been busy converting several old CB radio's into Ham Radio transceivers for the 4 meter or 70 MHz band.
Some are really smart where he'd actually replaced the existing 7-segment display with a small OLED display capable of showing the full digit frequency.
Isn't that cool ?!!
It's in dutch so for the non dutch speakers not all info might be clear, but I'm sure a handy ham can find enough to get inspired:
I came across this video that gives an introduction to the HackRF One,
and although it's used by ham's the origin is really non ham-radio.
So I was kind of happily surprised to see how the people in this video got the hack-rf sparking their intrest in ham-radio
Check it out:
