{"id":4312,"date":"2021-03-25T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2021-03-25T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:21:21","slug":"back-to-qo-100-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"Back to QO-100 satellite."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started on QO-100 in the March, 2020. After 6 month of more\/less activity and around 550 CW\/SSB\/DIGI-mode QSOs and 4 new countries for DXCC award, I decided to stop and sold all equipment (full set from DXPatrol), excluding 1.5 meter dish.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut 5 month later, my interest to this satellite &#8220;woke-up&#8221; again. But this time I decided to take the most cheapest way.<br \/>\nI have 2400\/430 MHz high quality transverter for 13 cm band from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sg-lab.com\/TR2300\/tr2300.html\">SG Laboratory Ltd.<\/a> So, 2W output into 150 cm dish should be enough. And for receiving on 10 Ghz just to use WEB SDR. I found the best (in my opinion)<a href=\"http:\/\/websdr.is0grb.it:8901\/\"> IS0GRB SDR. <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4315\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new_feed_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4315\" class=\"wp-image-4315 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new_feed_-170x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"150\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">150 cm dish for uplink<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Easy 4 turns helix feed to the dish. The transverter as close, as possible to the dish&nbsp; and in one day of a small efforts I was again on the satellite. It was on 4th of March, 2021 &#8211; exactly 1 year after my first start!<br \/>\nDuring 20 days of not very active operation I&#8217;ve added 48 new calsigns to my logbook of 82 total worked QSOs.<br \/>\nOf course, this is not so suitable, regarding to a real cross-band operation without computer. With the old setup I used YAESU FT-847 in satellite mode, as a station transceiver + SDR console V3, connected in parallel to RX port and using tranceiver&#8217;s CAT system. Very comfortable! Now only YAESu FT-817&nbsp; for uplink&#8230;<br \/>\nThe worse &#8211; you must manually adjust TX frequency, make a few attempts just looking to the trace on WEB SDR&#8217;s waterfall and listen to own echo. But after several days of operation I found a simple and quick way to fine tuning. Better, than nothing and cheap!<br \/>\nProbably, in the nearest future I will restore my real satellite operation. Who knows&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Just one remark: on this satellite I&#8217;ve meet many people, <span class=\"VIiyi\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\" data-language-for-alternatives=\"en\" data-language-to-translate-into=\"auto\" data-phrase-index=\"0\">who I met earlier on the EME and HF bands, especially on 6 meter.<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\" data-language-for-alternatives=\"en\" data-language-to-translate-into=\"auto\" data-phrase-index=\"1\">And many says that, like for me, this is a great opportunity to maintain and diversify your activity on the air.<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started on QO-100 in the March, 2020. After 6 month of more\/less activity and around 550 CW\/SSB\/DIGI-mode QSOs and 4 new countries for DXCC award, I decided to stop and sold all equipment (full set from DXPatrol), excluding 1.5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=4312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no_heading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}