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Old November 11th 07, 06:18 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Ralph Mowery Ralph Mowery is offline
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"Jerry Martes" wrote in message
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entire pass. I'd
have expected the "OSCAR" guys to have done the same and shaped their
satellite antenna beams to be essentially equal level over the angle at
which the Earth intercepts the satellite beam.
I'd like to know more about a 2Meter beacon satellite. Can you point
me to a site where I can learn about 2Meter beacon satellites? I have
a



Most of the ham sats are simple as far as that can be. The antennas on them
are not really made to point that accurate.

Here are some sats that have beacons near 145 mhz.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satel...tes/status.php