{"id":2306,"date":"2023-06-10T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T17:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m0aws.co.uk\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2023-07-02T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:57:28","slug":"my-first-qo-100-satellite-qso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m0aws.co.uk\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"My First QO-100 Satellite QSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been waiting for over a week so far for a male to male SMA connector to arrive from Amazon so that I can connect the 2.4Ghz up-converter to the 2.4Ghz amplifier. Since it still hasn’t arrived I decided to connect the up-converter directly to the IceCone Helix antenna to see if I could get a signal into the QO-100 satellite<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To my surprise I could easily hear my CW signal on QO-100 even though the total output from the up-converter is only 200mW. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t expect to be able to hear my signal since it’s a tiny amount of power that has to travel some 22500 miles to the satellite but, I could hear it and was amazed that it was peaking S8 on my SDR receiver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2.4Ghz
2.4Ghz Up-Converter connected directly to the antenna bypassing the 2.4Ghz Amplifier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Being excited I put out a CQ call that was soon answered by OH5LK<\/a>, Jussi in Finland. Jussi gave me a 579 report which I was extremely pleased with. He was of course much stronger at a 599+ at my end. We had a quick QSO and exchanged details without any problems at all. Its really nice to get a QRPp<\/a> contact without any QSB or QRM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"M0AWS
M0AWS QO-100 1.1m off-set Dish and IceCone Helix antenna ground station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Neil, G7UFO<\/a> who I chat with regularly in the Matrix Amateur Radio Satellites<\/a> room has posted a connector out to me so I’m hoping it will arrive on Monday and then I’ll be able to connect the amplifier and hopefully get a few SSB<\/a> contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: I’ve since had 2 SSB contacts via QO-100 using just the 200mW O\/P from the up-converter. Both times I got a 3\/3 report not brilliant but, perfectly acceptable for the amount of power I’m putting out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More soon …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been waiting for over a week so far for a male to male SMA connector to arrive from Amazon so that I can connect the 2.4Ghz up-converter to the 2.4Ghz amplifier. Since it still hasn’t arrived I decided to connect the up-converter directly to the IceCone Helix antenna to see if I could get … <\/p>\n

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