Not really a thing I did, but this afternoon I traded a buddy of mine some hamsticks for a tape measure dipole he'd built. When he first made it, it seemed like it would be more trouble than it's worth, but he let me borrow it once and it worked really well. It's nice because being a tape measure the element lengths are right there to read. I just used a calculator to figure out how long they should be, stretched them out, and they were dead on. I'll probably make a cheat sheet so I don't have to do math every time. They're 50' long, so it'll work down to 60m.
If the wind lets up maybe I can get on the air with it this weekend.
In the meantime, I just listened for the ISS to pass by and didn't really get much of what people were saying. I couldn't pick up a complete call sign or anything. While I wait for the next pass I programmed in some Doppler shift frequencies so hopefully I can get a longer usable pass. I used these frequencies, but because my radio can listen on one band and transmit on another, I made separate Tx and Rx channels.
It took me a few minutes to wrap my head around having to listen at a higher frequency but transmit on a lower frequency and vice versa to compensate.
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ISS Tracker: International Space Station
