Pulled the Trigger again Today !

[Qwazyone]

You may want to look into a QFH(I think that is what they're called) antenna, a quadrafilar helix for RX. A guy on radioreference built one and used it to RX from one of the NOAA sats with a scanner and the images were great.

Have you tried your current antenna at a 45 angle? W6GMT's qrz page says he uses a pair of elk antennas at 30? degrees, how I don't know, maybe 1 horizontal and 1 vertical to compensate for the satellite tumbling through space(as Moleculos video stated).

Have you tried other sats with your budget setup? For some reason, I think that AO-51 has circular polarity antennas, AMSAT.ORG possibly?

Congrats on getting the setup to work,any setup has its pros/cons, eve K8YSE setup hits a 1 minute snag when it hits the south stop and has to turn all the way around

 

[W1MSG]

I suppose I should be posting this on the Budget set up thread, but I have been looking at Gulf Alpha Antennas they make a sweet looking dual band a friend of mine has 2 of them and says they work awesome. He also has a AZ/EL Rotator as well.
Looks like it will need a duplexor to operate but that shouldnt be much of an issue.

So I will be watching the passes tomorrow and see if I can get in on any of the other satellites, so far the only one I can hear is AO-51. I'll try to get a recording tomorrow as well.

I also need to see how the HRD Satellite software works controlling the rig, havent quite figured that out yet.