drjim
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Re: VHF Contest Next Weekend
Well...spent all weekend (so far) getting my satellite antennas assembled and checked out for Field Day. I haven't used the "Big Guns" in 4 years, so had a lot of cobwebs to blow off, hardware to check, and software to update. The girlfriend's backyard isn't quite big enough to mount the full length of my Yagi's on the crossboom going through the elevation rotor, so I faked it with two pieces of mast standing in for the 2M and 70cm antennas. At least it lets me watch the "antennas" follow a satellite through the sky. This is the first time I've had full PC control of azimuth and elevation, and it's pretty neat to watch them "track" a bird.
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