[amsat-bb] iss beacon receive and vhf preamp
n.mahdinejad at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 05:31:27 PDT 2011
Dear amsat members.
I have some question about receiving beacon signal from ISS.
Could you please help me?
1. What is the difference between ISS, ARISS and ZARYA? Is these
different satellites or 1 satellite with 3 name?
2. Which of them is easier to receive beacon from them?
3. Frequency of beacon signal of ISS is in VHF band. Is it available
without preamp? I use 2 preamp. One for VHF and 1 for UHF band. But the
preamp in vhf band isn’t on. I mean that icom receiver could not supply it.
I activate preamp in vhf band in set menu of icom radio. The uhf band
preamp on and I use it. But for vhf when I push the preamp button in front
panel of icom the preamp writing is visible for 2 seconds and then
turned off and isn’t visible.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
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