Day 2 at the worklab – we searched for good satellite passes beforehand, and then decided to go out from 6pm on (much too hot before that).
We took the equipment, we had at hand, packed our people and some food and and went to Augarten.
2 netbooks (eee-pc), 1 funcube dongle, 1 logperiodic antenna (from Patrick).
Then with other people, also came more equipment: another laptop, a battery driven amplifyer, a handheld receiver.
All types of smart phones have shown to be quite handy as well – with compasses, and seeing the angle (for manual elevation precision control). Also data comparison about when precisely a satellite passes.
And in any case it is always nice to share all this noise and cracking and the hope to hear something – which we managed to hear some local radio amateurs, which was great already!
But not yet with satellites.
A lot of patience needed, experience needs time. The aim is to get a working routine for spotting and listening, recording and interpreting. We are learning a new instrument.
A range of new machines and software, of course, to be learned, to be understood, and then the question, what to make out of it.
What will we hear?
