**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 27, 2018, 23:49

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 27, 2018, 23:49

jess, bringer of floof @catoutofbed

current jess status: there is 20 ft of metal conduit on my bed

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:24

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:24

and now it's not on my bed

https://octodon.social/media/igjOnKYfZOQixtp7iRM

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:35

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:35

it's pretty wobbly but that should be easy to fix on a beach
now i just need to make the antenna part...

**Kloe** @klocxia@niu.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:48

**Kloe** @klocxia@niu.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:48

@catoutofbed
What is this for?

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:48

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:48

@klocxia it's a small collapsable mast for an antenna

**Kloe** @klocxia@niu.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:49

**Kloe** @klocxia@niu.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:49

@catoutofbed
Neato. But why put an antenna on a beach? Don't people usually put them on top of their houses?

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:51

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:51

@klocxia
i can't get it into a good place here
a beach has nothing in the way and a lot less radio noise than the city

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:53

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:53

@catoutofbed @klocxia ham radio? Nice to see someone else into that on fedi

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:57

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 00:57

@kurisu @klocxia
more or less
not planning on transmitting out of this mast probably
hoping to receive from some weather satellites

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:59

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 00:59

@catoutofbed @klocxia nice, POES? Which antenna to get the cross polarization or are you not bothering, pointing and praying?

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 01:03

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · Jun 28, 2018, 01:03

@kurisu @klocxia
for the moment targeting APT
gonna try with a v dipole and take the -2db hit from polarization, but if that doesn't work there's a quad dipole design i'm gonna try

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 01:04

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 01:04

@catoutofbed @klocxia yeah I've done a fair bit with apt. A lot nicer with an sdr because you get that nice wide fm receive bandwidth and its easier to compensate for Doppler.

**jess, bringer of floof** @catoutofbed · 2018-06-28T01:05:53Z

jess, bringer of floof @catoutofbed

@kurisu @klocxia
yeah
i know it's possible with an rtl-sdr so i'm gonna try to make that work

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**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 01:08

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 01:08

@catoutofbed @klocxia I've tried a few times with an ft-817 and its not nearly as good as a funcube dongle... If you have the right filters. The fun cube dongles filtering is pretty terrible compared to a larger rig, its just that a typical rig doesn't have wide enough fm bandwidth.

That and our quad helix fell down in a storm a few years ago.

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 01:10

**Steph** @kurisu@iscute.moe · Jun 28, 2018, 01:10

@catoutofbed @klocxia don't recommend the quad helix tbh, quad dipole performed way better. You might have a different experience though.