{"id":2999,"date":"2018-11-12T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/getting-ready-for-farhans-satellite-videos\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:39:00","slug":"getting-ready-for-farhans-satellite-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/getting-ready-for-farhans-satellite-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Farhan&#8217;s Satellite (videos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnF9MljUT6Q\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>I&#8217;ve been getting ready for the November 24 launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/farhans-satellite.html\">CubeSat that Farhan and his friends in India built<\/a>. I started out with my trusty Drake 2-B and a Hamtronics 2-to-10 downconverter, but I quickly switched to an RTL-SDR dongle and HD-SDR software. My 3 element quad antenna is visible in the first video. So far, I am using the Armstrong method to turn the antenna. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>In that first video I keep saying that I am waiting for AO-71. In fact is was AO-73, the &#8220;FunCube&#8221; from the UK. I think it is similar in power and antenna configuration to Farhan&#8217;s satellite, so I think we are almost ready for launch.<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>(Any ideas on what that mysterious pulsating sig in the satellite passband signal is in the first video?) <\/b><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LxTRDB11n0E\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting ready for the November 24 launch of the CubeSat that Farhan and his friends in India built. I started out with my trusty Drake 2-B and a Hamtronics 2-to-10 downconverter, but I quickly switched to an RTL-SDR dongle and HD-SDR software. My 3 element quad antenna is visible in the first video. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/getting-ready-for-farhans-satellite-videos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting Ready for Farhan&#8217;s Satellite (videos)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,68,82,40,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farhan","category-india","category-satellites","category-sdr","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}