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Sorry to hear this. It was his articles in Radio Electronics magazine that first got me started in this hobby.

Our triple pane low-e glass windows completely block XM radio at 2.3 GHz and severely attenuate UHF TV signals. Open the window and it works fine. Surprisingly, XM radio can be received inside our house through stucco walls with metal lath, but move the antenna to a window and the signal goes away.

OK, got it at 139w on an 8 ft Birdview here in New Mexico. Only 5.2 dB, but a solid lock. Thanks for everyones help.

I was confused too. I had assumed, incorrectly, that ARCS had moved to 127w. I am getting 3880 H 30000 with an SNR of 12.0 dB. Looks like ARCS is still on 139w.

Thanks. I'll try peaking the dish tomorrow.

Could someone post the freq and SR of the Alaskan mux? I'm getting most everything else without any problems on my 8 ft. Birdview. But not getting this one.

First of 4 images received overnight.

This SSTV event was done by the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI). They usually don't transmit during the entire ISS orbit, but only during periods that favor reception over Russia. I only saw one reception report from N.A. There is another SSTV event coming up at the end of this month that will...

Thanks! Noticed the change and couldn't figure it out. Also their Facebook page seems to be gone.

Here are a few of the images that I've received in the last two days. As usual, the sequence of images is somewhat synchronous with the orbit of the ISS, so I've gotten as many as 7 copies of some images and none of a few others. Hopefully I will receive the others later in the week. The FM...

Very interesting polgyver. Thanks for posting your tests. Snow in my C Band dish doesn't attenuate the signal much. But once it starts to melt and turns to slush, the signal drops way down. I once read in Coop's Satellite Digest about a guy who had a C Band dish in his garage (wooden...

Thanks KE4EST. Downloaded YONIQ and managed to catch what might be the the last pass in the current SSTV session. One thing I noticed. Even though I installed YONIQ in a separate folder from the original MMSSTV, YONIQ was saving the images in the original history folder, overwriting my old...

Back in September they turned on a new rig on the ISS. A modified Kenwood D710G. I believe power out is now 25 watts, from the previous rig's output of 5 watts. I'm using a unity gain discone antenna with a few dB of coax loss. The signal often pegs the S meter of my TS2000x at 60 over S9.

Had a couple of good passes early this morning. Merry Christmas.

I was somewhat active on ATV in the 70s. This was double sideband AM on 426 MHz, using modified commercial and homebrew equipment. Audio was on 2 meter FM. I ran only about 10 watts, which wasn't nearly enough, but managed to be seen about 40 miles away. My low power and lack of activity made it...