{"id":846,"date":"2015-10-10T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=846"},"modified":"2015-10-10T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T10:47:49","slug":"workin-the-birds-fox-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Workin&#8217; the Birds: Fox-1A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a continuation\/review\/progress report from my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=843\">Workin&#8217; The Birds<\/a> post.  The reason is to talk a little bit about the new bird on the block, Fox 1-A and notate what I learned while I tried to listen in on one of the passes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amsat just put in Fox 1-A into orbit and gave it the designation AO-85.\u00a0 I was able to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/amsat-new\/tools\/predict\/index.php\">AmSat Prediction Tool<\/a> to find out when the passes would be.  I have a recording of what I was able to hear at the bottom of the post for you to listen to if you like.<\/p>\n<p>My simple setup to get the recording was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A uv5r set for receiving, locked to 145.980.  Placed on my left pocket with the volume cranked to max.  I had the squelch set to 2.<\/li>\n<li>A BF-F8HP setup to transmit to AO-85 w\/ doppler shifts, using medium power, at 4 watts.  I didn&#8217;t really have anything to say, and my tracking was so sporadic (as you can hear) that I didn&#8217;t try to get into the sat.  I was prepared for transmitting with my throat mic however.  Using a throat mic will prevent the echo crossing on the two radios.  I had thBF-F8HP sitting next to the uv5r, clipped onto my left pocket.<\/li>\n<li>For recording, I launched a sound recording app on my droid, then slid the phone mic out into my left pocket, underneath the baofengs.  It should still have been able to pick up my voice.<\/li>\n<li>I used an arrow antenna directional antenna.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What I learned tonight:<\/h2>\n<p>In my previous post, I mentioned that I thought magnetic declination might be an issue.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngdc.noaa.gov\/geomag-web\/\">NOAA<\/a> has a website showing magnetic declination and for my QTH magnetic north is &#8230; only off by 2 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Rotating the antenna along the boom can make quite a difference in receiving ability.<\/p>\n<p>I would debate the value of leaving the squelch open.  In the future, I&#8217;ll set it to 1 or 2.  When you get close to the satellite it will open the squelch, letting you know you&#8217;re in the neighborhood of what you&#8217;re aiming for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a continuation\/review\/progress report from my previous Workin&#8217; The Birds post. The reason is to talk a little bit about the new bird on the block, Fox 1-A and notate what I learned while I tried to listen in on one of the passes. Amsat just put in Fox 1-A into orbit and gave&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=846\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}