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Here is the design of a 2.4 GHz antenna that is ideal for amateur satellite communications. This antenna is easy to assemble because the design itself tolerates inaccuracies in the construction without really affecting performance.

Footprint Satellite Tracker is a satellite tracking software that provides real-time monitoring of satellite movements worldwide. It features a global map with celestial markers and allows users to adjust time settings to predict satellite paths. Customizable options include location coordinates and time zones. Users can analyze satellite ephemeris and print reports, though file-saving requires a virtual printer. Despite its research utility, the software supports a limited satellite list and lacks options for manual data source connections. Current version has been tested running on Windows 10.

Weather Fax for Windows hardware and Software.

A rugged motorized satellite antenna tracking system for construction by the home handyman

Select your favorite satellite and watch its trajectory on Google Maps in real time! Includes ISS tracking, Weather, Geostationary, GPS Military, and of course Amateur radio satellites. N2YO provides comprehensive real-time satellite tracking with particular emphasis on amateur radio satellites. The service offers precise pass predictions calculated for user-specific locations, displaying upcoming passes with azimuth, elevation, and duration data essential for ham operators planning satellite contacts. N2YO features dedicated tracking for amateur radio satellites including FM, linear transponder, and digital satellites, with frequency information and downlink/uplink details. The platform delivers live tracking visualizations on interactive maps, Doppler shift calculations, and automated email notifications for upcoming passes. This free resource integrates weather satellite tracking alongside NOAA imagery, making it invaluable for radio enthusiasts pursuing satellite communications.

Real time tracking of an unlimited number of satellites, fast, accurate and easy to use. Automated FTP keps updates. Also support a great number of interface to control rotors azimuth and elevation plus frequency doppler shift. Since 2017 Nova is free to donwload and use. No support is given.

Plan of a helix antenna for 2 meter satellite use by VK5ZAI

HamCalc is a free collection of calculators for radio amateurs include Antenna ERP calculations, Attenuators, Audio Filter design, Coil Winding, Decibels, Great Circles map and calculator, HF Filters, HF Traps, Metric conversions OP Amps QRA Locator to Latitude/Longitude, Radio Horizon calculator, Resonance Satellite orbit calculator Timer calculations (555 timer)Zener Diode calculations Download zip By G4VWL

Smart homebrew antenna-ELEVATOR system with linear actuator. The actuator is a cheap and heavy tool with high enough torque, ideal for elevation systems, but in practice it needs quite an effort in order to operate correctly in your homebrew antenna system. This page inform you of the actuator's secrets.

A large collection of maps of each dxcc country with general information, banknotes and coins, satellite images, flags and national information where available by SP6NVK

Tips that may be of help with the most important part of an amateur radio satellite station, the antenna systems.

Orbitron is a freeware (cardware) application dedicaed to satellite tracking. Allow tracking of ISS, Iridium flares, ham radio satellites, International Space Station, satellite passes prediction, orbits, auto updates and alerting

This article describes how to make a quadrifilar helix (QFH) antenna easily, from inexpensive materials: uPVC plumbing pipe and RG-58U co-axial cable. A low-cost, easy-to-build Quadrifilar Helix (QFH) antenna for weather satellite reception using uPVC plumbing pipe and RG-58U coaxial cable. Unlike traditional designs requiring copper pipe and plumbing skills, this approach enables construction with basic tools and minimal technical expertise. The antenna's shorter, wider proportions favor higher elevation angles, reducing interference from horizon-level pager transmitters. Electrical connections are simplified at the antenna's apex, with the coaxial cable forming the radiating elements. Testing demonstrated consistent signal strength throughout satellite passes, proving effective weather satellite reception is achievable without precision engineering to sub-millimeter tolerances.

Satellite Orbital Prediction and Satellite Tracking

Wintrak and traksat, satellite tracking software

Earth view, with satellite data provided by The Living Earth.

Building a Bell ExpressVu satellite dish with a waveguide coffee can cantenna feed, and a Netgear USB Rangemax wifi card (WPN111).

Satscape is a freeware program for the PC Macintosh and Linux. It produces real-time displays of where any Satellite is, and predicts passes for your locale. There are about 8000+ satellites in orbit, a lot of these are just junk and debris such as discarded rocket bodies, but quite a few are working Satellites.

Here is a high-performance hand-held beam antenna that is easy to build and guaranteed to improve your downlink from the LEO satellites over ANY rubber duck or mobile whip

A portable antenna for mode B and J satellites

This antenna is easy to build and suitable for broadband work, satellite work and terrestrial work.

This easy to build antenna works well for satellite or terrestrial communication, horizontal or vertically polarized by Anthony Monteiro, AA2TX QST Article

WXtoImg is a freeware advanced APT (NOAA, Meteor) and WEFAX (GOES, Meteosat) weather satellite decoding program for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X

A 6 elements VHF Yagi antenna designed with YAGIMAX 3 and made by SV1XY with excellent results on local and satellites contacts like UO-14 and AO-27

This listing was put together by ve7vdx on the USENET rec.radio.amateur.space, and is updated weekly there

Tracking Interfaces and software for allmost every rotor

An old satellite frequency list from 3 to 8475 Mhz dated 1996

Crossed yagi for 437 MHz Satellite antenna, with power divider splitter build.

Mobile vertical antenna for 144 MHz suitable for satellite signals reception by K5OE

AutoRec is windows freeware time based automatic recorder - player for radio broadcast. Auto Recorder will record or play wav audio files, and execute batch or other executable application programs at scheduled times. The primary use for Auto Recorder is automatic, unattended recording and playback of network or other satellite-delivered radio station program material.

Build parabolic WLAN antenna adapted from a small satellite dish. It provides high gain and long range connections.

Monitoring Times, SWL, BCL, montly reports, Broadcast band, satellite television, long-wave coverage, Reviews of new products and radio-related software.

Modification to the Bearcat 210 scanner for reception of 137 Mhz FM is a fairly simple process.

On the Satellitenprogram of DJ0SX Peter one can provide time schedules for over 500 satellites or count 23 satellites real-time imTextmode. The large advantage exists in thought out and of long observation practice which are due flexibility in the selection and the requirements to a satellite program. The program runs under Windows 95/98, NT, XP, 2000

Here are construction plans of a Turnstile antenna that I use for space communication on the 2 meter amateur radio band.

SAT_EXPLORER is a free software for satellite users. It provides very quickly and continuously visibility forcasts as a waiting delay ( satellite will be here IN ...)and a visibility duration (satellite will be visible FOR ...). Ten (and even more) satellites can be monitored simultaneously.

What type of antenna should I get? Well, the best type of antenna for working the OSCAR satellites are circular polarized antennas

Cross-Yagis for Terrestrial and Satellite Work The 2x6-El.-Cross-Yagi (28 Ohm, 2.60m Boom) by Henk, PA3GUO

Hand held portable, 6 meters and satellite antennas

This article describes how to make a quadrifilar helix (QFH) antenna easily, from inexpensive materials: uPVC plumbing pipe and RG-58U co-axial cable

PstRotator handles just about every controllable rotator in common use: Prosistel, Green Heron, HyGain, RC1 MDS, Rotor-EZ Idiom Press, Yaesu Az and many more PstRotator includes automatic tracking for satellite or EME communications, using programs like WSJT, VQLog, TACLog, Z-Track, GJTracker, EME System, Trak_SM, WXtrack, WinOrbit, Orbitron, Nova for Windows, Sat_Explorer, SatPC32, Win-Test. PstRotator supports remote control over TCP/IP.

This simple antenna is capable of remarkable results on 160, 80 and 40 metres. Forming a triangle from around 50 feet of satellite TV coaxial cable, the top of the triangle can be as low as 15 feet, and the lower side just high enough to prevent a passer by hanging themselves

The ultimate satellite Omni Antenna by Howard Sodja, W6SHP. The Lindenblad antenna consists of four half wave folded dipoles slanted 30 degrees to the horizon, oriented 90 degrees to each other in azimuth, spaced 0.3 wavelength apart

Arrow-Style VHF/UHF portable satellite antenna by VE2ZAZ

STSORBIT PLUS, usually known as STSPLUS, will track the space shuttle or any satellite for which orbital data (TLEs) are available. A brief description of the program and several screen capture examples follow the links for downloading the program files.

The DSP Satellite Transceiver is a conceptual transceiver designed as a dedicated unit for amateur satellite operators. The initial concept was brought about by the lack of satellite functionality on modern amateur radio transceivers, and the specialized requirements of the ham radio operator who utilizes OSCAR amateur satellites.

Gpredict is a satellite tracking program for Unix-like operating systems. In the begining (v. 0.1.x) Gpredict was just a GUI client to John Magliacane's excellent satellite tracking program, Predict, but due to performance problems it has been decided to include the tracking code directly into Gnome Predict (v. 0.2.0 and later).

There are many kinds of satellite antennas that will get you on the birds and allow you to have lots of fun

PocketPC freeware that track satellites, and display their position on a map of the world. It also has a display that shows other relevant information useful to Ham Radio operators to allow them to work them.

Ground tracks are the trace of the satellite's path over the ground. Amsat, ISS, geosynchronous satellites, navigation satellites, weather satellites, Iridium satellites, visible Satellites. Requires Java