Most are 2 meters and 440 but there is some activity on 1.2 gig as well. I 
haven't heard of any on 10meters which is how it used to be but it may still 
be done. The egg beater antenna looks like an egg beater, is the only way I 
can say it, I've looked at one and you have to look at one to understand it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:37 PM
Subject: satolite info


> Hello everyone;
> Our radio club had a so-called youth night Tuesday evening.  Folks =
> including myself brought things to display.  I didn't bring much =
> exciting but showed the kids a few talking items.  The guy next to me =
> was very into satellites.  Way back when when I was more into the hobby =
> I thought most satellites input on 10 meters and output on 440.  From =
> what I heard last night they seem to just be using 2 meters and 440.  Is =
> this the case?  Are they still using ssb or have we moved on to fm?
> The guy had a radio connected to an antenna on his car and couldn't hear =
> anything.  That didn't matter though since the kids were fascinated with =
> the program on his laptop which apparently showed a map and circles =
> moving across the map for the various satellites.  I have the feeling =
> that it wouldn't think about working with speech.  Are there any similar =
> tracking programs that do work well with speech?
> Secondly, anyone care to describe what this egg beater antenna looks =
> like which he said worked wonderfully for satellite work?
> The guy on the other side of me tried explaining third party traffic and =
> he had these little forms which the kids could fill out (one word per =
> square) for a message.  Is there a template that lets someone do =
> something similar on a pc?
> Unfortunately, I think the kids were a bit to young and the only thing =
> that seemed to excite them were the satellite maps and aprs.
> Richard
>