Notices by AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@mastodon.radio)

My son just made contacts from So. California to Illinois and Missouri on 10m, so that solar storm not wiping things out. Maybe chased people off the radio a wee bit early. #CME #hamradio

It appears the #ARRL is busy stirring up a hornet's nest, they apparently are going to start charging their Life Members for paper copies of #QST... $48/year. Lots of those Life Members specifically subscribed assuming they would get the magazine for free. #hamradio

@roadriverrail Well, my initial plan was just to play around with the satellite tracking and data collection at satnogs.org -- it's open source, allows you to submit satellite logs and for people to collect them. I had everything needed to put up a station quickly (yesterday!). I had all the parts for the antenna there, so built that at lunch/coffee break today. Really it's a learning experience for me.

@roadriverrail Assuming I tune it correctly, this can be used to receive weather satellite transmissions: https://muro.undernet.uy/u/santiago/h/1x88LcKP77HsQ1q786

@roadriverrail Also, my thought was to use it to monitor the ISS downlink(s) automatically... last year one of the astronauts was on quite regularly and I missed it!!

Zip-tie-and-chickenwire (plus refrigerator tubing) #satellite #hamradio #antenna up and receiving! #SatNOGS