HO-68 CW beacon with Funcube Dongle and Arrow ante
Reception of the HO-68 (XW-1) satellite beacon using the Funcube Dongle receiver and an Arrow II hand-held yagi antenna. Quisk software defined radio receiver running on Ubuntu Linux 10.10 64bit.
I was located indoors pointing the Arrow out through the window (and Doppler tuning with left hand, hence the high pitch ;-)
The peak was around 52 deg elevation, range 1400 km. The CW beacon transmitter is 200mW RF.
The Funcube Dongle is a USB stick SDR receiver for 64 MHz - 1.7 GHz by Howard Long G6LVB, seehttp://www.funcubedongle.com/
Video recorded by Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC
I was located indoors pointing the Arrow out through the window (and Doppler tuning with left hand, hence the high pitch ;-)
The peak was around 52 deg elevation, range 1400 km. The CW beacon transmitter is 200mW RF.
The Funcube Dongle is a USB stick SDR receiver for 64 MHz - 1.7 GHz by Howard Long G6LVB, seehttp://www.funcubedongle.com/
Video recorded by Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC
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