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