The article "Eavesdropping on Apollo 11" from the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) website details an intriguing story about Larry Baysinger, a ham radio operator and amateur radio-astronomer, who successfully detected radio transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon in July 1969. His remarkable feat was documented by Glenn Rutherford, a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, in an article titled “Lunar Eavesdropping: Louisvillians hear moon walk talk on homemade equipment.” Baysinger used homemade electronic equipment, including a 20-year-old radio receiver from an Army tank and an antenna made of spare pieces of aluminum, nylon cord, and chicken wire. He was able to record 35 minutes of conversation from VHF signals transmitted between astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. This also included President Nixon's message of congratulations. Baysinger's antenna for this project was a fully steerable 8 × 12-foot "corner horn," noted for its exceptional sensitivity, which he had specially modified. His work gained brief recognition, including a meeting with the Collins Radio Company, which supplied communications systems for Apollo spacecraft. However, the story eventually faded into obscurity, preserved only in microfilm archives of the Courier-Journal. The article also details how Baysinger's interest in radio led him to a career with WHAS 840 AM radio in Louisville. His lunar eavesdropping project was motivated by a desire to independently verify NASA's information about the Apollo program and possibly uncover unfiltered details about the Apollo 11 landing. On the night of the Apollo 11 landing, Baysinger and Rutherford had to manually aim the antenna at the Moon, which was challenging due to cloudy weather and the Moon's motion. Despite the noisy signal, they were able to hear the astronauts' conversations, which were broadcast on TV without any edits or omissions. After Apollo 11, Baysinger did not pursue eavesdropping on other Apollo missions and moved on to other projects. The article raises the question of whether other similar lunar eavesdropping projects were conducted by amateur radio operators. It mentions only one other case of independent detection of Apollo transmissions from the Moon by Sven Grahn and Richard Flagg during the Apollo 17 mission, using a 30-foot radio telescope dish.
I agree. You can do it with that radio no issue. The big challenge is speaking WITH the crew of the ISS (there is always a "ham" onboard) and getting a QSL card! My wife, who's a ham also, and I competed to which one of us would get the ISS first. That was in 2010. One of my more treasured QSL cards.
The problem is that this antenna is for 70cm and you want one which tunes to 2m as well. I have a dual band AY04 antenna which does both 2m and 70cm which I use for satellite.
i hit the ISS repeater while commuting to work with the dual band radio in my car, you don't really need a directional antenna if you get a pass at the right angle. I've done APRS via the ISS with a "quarter wave groundplane" antenna made of a so239 connector and some 10awg copper wire. It's doable!
I've done APRS to the ISS on a UV-5R with nothing more then the BTECH APRS cable, a phone with aprsDroid, and a upgraded antenna. I have one of the knock off nagoya ones but it apparently works good enough to hit the ISS. Although I couldn't really get anything to work when it was less then 25°.
I just set this up but I didn’t have the adapter for the antenna cable to the actual antenna. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to try it out when they get here
The irony is I was watching the video pulled up the N2YO clicked on ISS and it was 1 minute away. Took a picture of the night sky and found it when I zoomed in on the picture. Blurry but I got it. Didn't have time to grab my Ham radio to listen for traffic but was funny with the timing.
New subscriber here. Can you hear astronaut communication or just h signals from earth hitting the ISS as a repeater? Thanks and keep up the great SDR content!
I think the general downlinks for station radio aren't easy to pick up. I've heard you can sometimes hear suit radios during spacewalks, or capsule radios during docking (on different frequencies). I missed the recent SpaceX docking but I might try listening next time there's something like that.
One or more of the astronauts are licensed hams. If they have time, they will get on the radio and call for stations. I spoke with a crew member of the ISS in 2010 on one of my radios. It's a pretty big competition as many others are calling for them also. You exchange call signs and signal reports and maybe a quick question, but it's no long conversation. You only have the opportunity while the ISS is in your visible sky. Once they get over the horizon, they're no longer reachable. The speed they're going makes that happen fast. It was a great challenge. It took many, many attempts. No special gear and a Technician Class licensee has the the needed license privileges.
The ISS Crossband repeater has a downlink of 437.800 MHz with a doppler shift of up to +10khz on acquisition of signal (AOS) and typically -5 to -10 khz on loss of signal (LOS). The ISS direct to earth frequencies are 145.800 MHz for the downlink, which is also the frequency you can receive slow scan television (SSTV) on. They also have VHF and UHF up/downlinks for APRS packet communication. I have recordings of one of the female astronauts communicating with school children during one of their planned contacts from last April.
I spoke to Kathy Sullivan aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis some years back when I was in university, on one of the SAREX (Shuttle carrying Amateur Radio EXperiment) equipped missions.
Gabe, I have a video on my channel when I was working one of the satellites. The calls go by pretty quick, and you have to be on your toes when the satellite goes zipping overhead. It’s fun, and an interesting challenge as well 😊
I am surprised that there is a doppler shift in the signal since the signal is transmitting at the speed of light and the ISS is hardly moving compared to that. I know it’s true but I guess I need to see the math to comprehend it.
You don’t need a yagi to hear the ISS. All you need is a high gain antenna that’s it. However, you need a Yagi to transmit. I listen to the space station repeater on my Yaesu 70 D. Just by leaving it by my window. You can use a basic Baogang radio and transmit with a Yagi antenna and reach the station.
I told a coworker of mine I saw a video on the internet of a guy that points an antenna connected to a radio to the sky and listens to satellites and he would not believe it is real 😂
😂 The only conversations that I could listen it was DX radio amateurs. Is that or the astronauts have been too long in space, or one of them is my grandfather having fun in zero gravity 😂😂😂
Hey man you don't really need a powerful radio to transmit on. I just made a contact myself over the ISS repeater with a tram omni directional antenna and an ICOM 5100. Been lovin your projects man!
That antenna MIGHT give you enough oomph to hit the ISS repeater, I hit it all the time with just my Nagoya771 whip antenna on my Wouxun which is similar... I'd at least give it a shot. I can listen for you if want to give it a try.
@@digitalchaos1980 Mines an older UV6D and I was really surprised when I got a good signal report. Can't beat a genuine Nagoya antenna. I also used this setup to hit the AO91 ham sat and got a good signal report on there as well. Even got a QSL card!
Flat earthers must say that there is a government official responsible for answering amateur radio messages in order to maintain the lie that the earth is round.😂
They also claim that satellite communications are actually weather balloons. Imagine launching 30k weather balloons per day to simulate the observable effects of satellites orbiting.
Hey man! If you make a contact with the ISS, you can get a really cool QSL card from them. I bounced a packet off of it with APRS and it got me a card.
You have to mail off a form with the dates/time/proof you contacted ISS. Super fun. I'd provide more info, but Its been so long I can't remember. Best of luck to you! :)
I didn't get a qsl card, but I did get an ACK, 73 from a station that APRS listed as over 7000 miles. That's 2.5 times the distance I've reached even on RS-44.
The only thing I need help with is the proper adapter to plug the antenna into the uv5r. I've looked at adapters online but am afraid of purchasing in fear I'll order the wrong one lol. Isn't it just a BNC connector? I kind of want to build my own yagi antenna though. Building antennas is a lot of fun. Thanks man!
The Yagi I have uses a regular old UHF Male / PL-259 / CB Radio style connector. Most Baofengs use SMA-Female as the antenna (so the jack on the radio would be SMA-Male). You can usually find a 4-pack of various SMA to UHF adapters on Amazon or eBay for $10 or less.
imagine the first thing you listen is "houston we're going down, we are going down.... so this is the end. tell my daughter that I won't be coming back with the milk.."
I've worked 44 states, 7 Canadian provinces, and a half dozen stations in Mexico over the ISS crossband repeater. I can hit it when its 1000 miles out in the Pacific and Gulf of Alaska and can track it until i lose signal when it crosses over Lake Superior or past the Mississippi River. Probably 200-300 contacts total. The best time to work it is lat at night because theres less people trying to get in to the repeater Also: If you try calling "CQ Satellite" over and over on an FM repeater, clogging the signal, you deserve to be punched in the head.
Transmitting via the ISS isn’t that complex, it’s more difficult to find a bit of free air to talk as it’s piled up on every pass. APRS via the ISS is much more doable (and I’ve done that loads) but there’s way less kudos doing that.
They're radio amateurs giving their call signs, the station goes over so quickly and so many people want to use it that they don't have time for much else.
It can be surprisingly tricky, I've had mixed luck getting the timing and aiming just right. If you're in a city or near trees or hills it can also limit reception. I've had commenters say they can hear the station with just a regular rubber antenna that comes with the radio, and others who say they can't hear it at all. I had to make sure to coordinate the positioning with n2yo.com and double-check if the repeaters were active via www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
Здравствуйте! Вы могли бы сказать, размеры, расстояния в сантиметрах от самой приёмной части антенны (коротенькой трубочки до самой антенны (рефлектора)? Спасибо!
I don't have it in front of me to measure, but it should be the same as this one: www.amazon.com/TWAYRDIO-Antenna-400-470Mhz-Outdoor-Transceivers/dp/B08FC7JVQG?tag=namespacebran486-20
Hey man I've been wondering just for educational purposes, but could you conceivably work out the distance and location of something like the ISS from it's radio signals or is that not possible?
Um... wait, I can transmit to the space station and they have to listen? Time to get a HAM license. Edit: I'm going to tell them about the space fish... thing.
I know this post is old but Do you need a ham license to use the basic baofang antenna? Because i have a camp with barely any service and this would be nice to have
"The earth is flat and satellites arent real" meanwhile hobbyists:
One hobbyist actually built a rig to receive audio from Apollo missions. NASA was so impressed, they came by to look at it.
@@5roundsrapid263is there an article about this, would love to read more
Judica brothers look it up@@ericfan1223
The article "Eavesdropping on Apollo 11" from the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) website details an intriguing story about Larry Baysinger, a ham radio operator and amateur radio-astronomer, who successfully detected radio transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon in July 1969. His remarkable feat was documented by Glenn Rutherford, a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, in an article titled “Lunar Eavesdropping: Louisvillians hear moon walk talk on homemade equipment.”
Baysinger used homemade electronic equipment, including a 20-year-old radio receiver from an Army tank and an antenna made of spare pieces of aluminum, nylon cord, and chicken wire. He was able to record 35 minutes of conversation from VHF signals transmitted between astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. This also included President Nixon's message of congratulations. Baysinger's antenna for this project was a fully steerable 8 × 12-foot "corner horn," noted for its exceptional sensitivity, which he had specially modified.
His work gained brief recognition, including a meeting with the Collins Radio Company, which supplied communications systems for Apollo spacecraft. However, the story eventually faded into obscurity, preserved only in microfilm archives of the Courier-Journal.
The article also details how Baysinger's interest in radio led him to a career with WHAS 840 AM radio in Louisville. His lunar eavesdropping project was motivated by a desire to independently verify NASA's information about the Apollo program and possibly uncover unfiltered details about the Apollo 11 landing. On the night of the Apollo 11 landing, Baysinger and Rutherford had to manually aim the antenna at the Moon, which was challenging due to cloudy weather and the Moon's motion. Despite the noisy signal, they were able to hear the astronauts' conversations, which were broadcast on TV without any edits or omissions.
After Apollo 11, Baysinger did not pursue eavesdropping on other Apollo missions and moved on to other projects. The article raises the question of whether other similar lunar eavesdropping projects were conducted by amateur radio operators. It mentions only one other case of independent detection of Apollo transmissions from the Moon by Sven Grahn and Richard Flagg during the Apollo 17 mission, using a 30-foot radio telescope dish.
don't think anyone thinks this, but thanks being angsty
Fellow ham operator here: You can absolutely reach the ISS with that radio and antenna.
I agree. You can do it with that radio no issue. The big challenge is speaking WITH the crew of the ISS (there is always a "ham" onboard) and getting a QSL card! My wife, who's a ham also, and I competed to which one of us would get the ISS first. That was in 2010. One of my more treasured QSL cards.
@@kirk1618 That's what we call "The Golden Ticket" getting a QSL card from the ISS crew.
The problem is that this antenna is for 70cm and you want one which tunes to 2m as well. I have a dual band AY04 antenna which does both 2m and 70cm which I use for satellite.
@@kirk1618 who won?
@@c0mplex564I ended up catching them when I got home from work one afternoon. My wife would get home a couple hours after me each day.
This is insane. Make a video on this and the components you use.
Make me coffee.
yes please make a detailed video brother
Did you not hear the last 5 seconds of this video? Thats exactly what he said he's doing..
@@andrewrice1174 why would he of said that if he did?
i love that if you have a powerful enough radio you can call the ISS and they'll usually pick up and be like "well, how are you doing today?"
i hit the ISS repeater while commuting to work with the dual band radio in my car, you don't really need a directional antenna if you get a pass at the right angle. I've done APRS via the ISS with a "quarter wave groundplane" antenna made of a so239 connector and some 10awg copper wire. It's doable!
I've done APRS to the ISS on a UV-5R with nothing more then the BTECH APRS cable, a phone with aprsDroid, and a upgraded antenna. I have one of the knock off nagoya ones but it apparently works good enough to hit the ISS. Although I couldn't really get anything to work when it was less then 25°.
This sounds so technical jargony it just makes me feel like a stupid caveman
@@kevinm.n.5158 oogah boogah
Dude I’ve said it before I’ll say it again. This stuff is seriously cool. I don’t know why it took me so long to actually appreciate the hobby
I just set this up but I didn’t have the adapter for the antenna cable to the actual antenna. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to try it out when they get here
Ok so I’m lost, I can’t find an adaptor/cable to go from my radio to the antenna. Can you tell me exactly what you used sir?
I was able to listen to and transmit to the ISS with just a 5 watt HT and a rubber duck when it was overhead. You don't need anything fancy.
And you probably stomped all over every legit user trying to make a contact...
@@Skullfocher What makes you think they weren't a legit user trying to make a contact?
I didn't even know i was interested in this kinda stuff
Thank you for opening my eyes to entirely new hobby 😅
Holy cow this is awesome!!!
The best think that happened to me this year is finding your channel!
Jack Black listening to ISS comms is my new favourite thing 💀
Nice to see you stepping into shorts for updates!
Caught them 3 times today in NGA and waiting for another pass at 18:00. 06-11-23
That's so cool, can't wait to see the Upcoming Video....
This is so cool! thank you for sharing sir!
Love your stuff, looking forward to the next update!
Most enjoyable & informative. Thank you
I stumbled across your channel randomly, one of the most interesting vids I've watched this year
I enjoy your videos.!! fantastically motivational!
Dude... Great video I've been looking for a video like this....
So cool ! Thank you, I'll stay tuned for the next episode :)
I knew about Doppler. Everything we used had the shift built in. Thinking of going this way to try the ISS before it’s done
I've been watching your video for about 2 weeks now. this is very awesome stuff, you always make me interested in every video.
He explains this stuff excellent. It makes me want to get radio gear and listen in.
dude it's amazing, really amazing
Doing the same thing, always great to listen in with NA1SS!
Amazing stuff! cant wait for the video!
so cool, thanks for always having something cool and quirky to entertain us!
The irony is I was watching the video pulled up the N2YO clicked on ISS and it was 1 minute away. Took a picture of the night sky and found it when I zoomed in on the picture. Blurry but I got it. Didn't have time to grab my Ham radio to listen for traffic but was funny with the timing.
I like how the lighting makes you look like a mad scientist in an older movie
Well done sir!
just discovered you a few days ago, already subscribed. I'm loving the content!
I cant wait to watch this
I used 110 watt motorola with a mag mount antenna and it worked just fine
You're the man 🙏💙
New subscriber here. Can you hear astronaut communication or just h signals from earth hitting the ISS as a repeater? Thanks and keep up the great SDR content!
I think the general downlinks for station radio aren't easy to pick up. I've heard you can sometimes hear suit radios during spacewalks, or capsule radios during docking (on different frequencies). I missed the recent SpaceX docking but I might try listening next time there's something like that.
One or more of the astronauts are licensed hams. If they have time, they will get on the radio and call for stations. I spoke with a crew member of the ISS in 2010 on one of my radios. It's a pretty big competition as many others are calling for them also. You exchange call signs and signal reports and maybe a quick question, but it's no long conversation. You only have the opportunity while the ISS is in your visible sky. Once they get over the horizon, they're no longer reachable. The speed they're going makes that happen fast. It was a great challenge. It took many, many attempts. No special gear and a Technician Class licensee has the the needed license privileges.
The ISS Crossband repeater has a downlink of 437.800 MHz with a doppler shift of up to +10khz on acquisition of signal (AOS) and typically -5 to -10 khz on loss of signal (LOS). The ISS direct to earth frequencies are 145.800 MHz for the downlink, which is also the frequency you can receive slow scan television (SSTV) on. They also have VHF and UHF up/downlinks for APRS packet communication. I have recordings of one of the female astronauts communicating with school children during one of their planned contacts from last April.
I spoke to Kathy Sullivan aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis some years back when I was in university, on one of the SAREX (Shuttle carrying Amateur Radio EXperiment) equipped missions.
Gabe, I have a video on my channel when I was working one of the satellites. The calls go by pretty quick, and you have to be on your toes when the satellite goes zipping overhead. It’s fun, and an interesting challenge as well 😊
Remember guys, it's always legal to recieve signals on a non-FCC compliant device. You're just not allowed to transmit signals!
Awesome! You can make a transmit yago out of some pvc pipe and lengths of a tape measure for the elements.
I am surprised that there is a doppler shift in the signal since the signal is transmitting at the speed of light and the ISS is hardly moving compared to that. I know it’s true but I guess I need to see the math to comprehend it.
Great video
Always remember VHF to talk and UHF to listen
That's so f**king cool 😂
What a jolly lad
Awesome!!!
Thank's for web-site! I make a j-pole for my uv-82)) Now i know what else to do!
Make a dual band Yagi 2m/70cm.
ty brother
You don’t need a yagi to hear the ISS. All you need is a high gain antenna that’s it. However, you need a Yagi to transmit. I listen to the space station repeater on my Yaesu 70 D. Just by leaving it by my window. You can use a basic Baogang radio and transmit with a Yagi antenna and reach the station.
I told a coworker of mine I saw a video on the internet of a guy that points an antenna connected to a radio to the sky and listens to satellites and he would not believe it is real 😂
Radio is one of the biggest inventions of humankind.
You are awesome
You are so badass holy hell
I manages to activate the repeater with an abbree AR771 antenna that I got for £1.6
I just use the antenna that came with my ht and I can hear them just fine!
I love this! I want do it myself
Why do I have the slight urge to watch that one Hercules Movie again?
Anyways I like ur Videos keep it up man 👍
Was able to hear the repeater with an omnidirectional scanning antenna - seems to be a pretty strong signal.
😂 The only conversations that I could listen it was DX radio amateurs. Is that or the astronauts have been too long in space, or one of them is my grandfather having fun in zero gravity 😂😂😂
Hey man you don't really need a powerful radio to transmit on. I just made a contact myself over the ISS repeater with a tram omni directional antenna and an ICOM 5100. Been lovin your projects man!
I need to get a good VHF antenna!
That antenna MIGHT give you enough oomph to hit the ISS repeater, I hit it all the time with just my Nagoya771 whip antenna on my Wouxun which is similar... I'd at least give it a shot. I can listen for you if want to give it a try.
I’ve got the same setup actually lol. Wouxun UV9D+ Mate with a genuine Nagoya, works quite well!! 😁
@@digitalchaos1980
Mines an older UV6D and I was really surprised when I got a good signal report. Can't beat a genuine Nagoya antenna. I also used this setup to hit the AO91 ham sat and got a good signal report on there as well. Even got a QSL card!
Your antenna even looks like the ISS.
Anyone else want to see a video of him peeling that factory screen protector off?
Loved it
hmm..i have several contacts on amsats (AO-91 and 92 , SO-50) that were made with a 5W Yaesu HT with a Comet whip antenna.
Didn't know it was possible to listen in on the space station with a handheld might have to try it out when I get my license
You don't need a licence to just listen.
@@paulsengupta971 I don't really remember why I specified when I got my license
This is Awesome AF
Flat earthers must say that there is a government official responsible for answering amateur radio messages in order to maintain the lie that the earth is round.😂
They also claim that satellite communications are actually weather balloons. Imagine launching 30k weather balloons per day to simulate the observable effects of satellites orbiting.
Dont need antenna like that to hear ISS, the rubber duck will work
I listen all the time with a nagoya 771 and Baofeng ht. Also mobile ftm6000 and sbb5 on car, this one keep longer time in reception.
I believe my crew in the dense forest can use it.
Woah nice
Hey man! If you make a contact with the ISS, you can get a really cool QSL card from them. I bounced a packet off of it with APRS and it got me a card.
You have to mail off a form with the dates/time/proof you contacted ISS. Super fun. I'd provide more info, but Its been so long I can't remember. Best of luck to you! :)
I didn't get a qsl card, but I did get an ACK, 73 from a station that APRS listed as over 7000 miles. That's 2.5 times the distance I've reached even on RS-44.
You have to broadcast to it
I need to make or buy a bigger antenna for that, the uplink is on VHF and this antenna only does UHF.
The only thing I need help with is the proper adapter to plug the antenna into the uv5r. I've looked at adapters online but am afraid of purchasing in fear I'll order the wrong one lol. Isn't it just a BNC connector?
I kind of want to build my own yagi antenna though. Building antennas is a lot of fun. Thanks man!
The Yagi I have uses a regular old UHF Male / PL-259 / CB Radio style connector. Most Baofengs use SMA-Female as the antenna (so the jack on the radio would be SMA-Male). You can usually find a 4-pack of various SMA to UHF adapters on Amazon or eBay for $10 or less.
One night you'll probably pickup the Deathstar.
imagine the first thing you listen is "houston we're going down, we are going down.... so this is the end. tell my daughter that I won't be coming back with the milk.."
awesome
I have been trying to make this happen with my baofeng UV-9.
That is SO frikin rad😂🍷
I've worked 44 states, 7 Canadian provinces, and a half dozen stations in Mexico over the ISS crossband repeater. I can hit it when its 1000 miles out in the Pacific and Gulf of Alaska and can track it until i lose signal when it crosses over Lake Superior or past the Mississippi River. Probably 200-300 contacts total. The best time to work it is lat at night because theres less people trying to get in to the repeater
Also: If you try calling "CQ Satellite" over and over on an FM repeater, clogging the signal, you deserve to be punched in the head.
Transmitting via the ISS isn’t that complex, it’s more difficult to find a bit of free air to talk as it’s piled up on every pass. APRS via the ISS is much more doable (and I’ve done that loads) but there’s way less kudos doing that.
HT and a yagi should hit the ISS fine…
😂did you watch the video
You don't even need that antenna, just turn your HT sideways.
😆😆😆😆😆😆
You don’t need that type of antenna and to point it. Best to just use a roof antenna.. mount it at the top of your roof.
Sir, I Am in Learning & practicing Radio Astronomy. I am also preparing for on-campus Graduation. I need your help in learning Radio techs.
You don't need a HAM license, it's called 1A
I'm hearing Aviation call signs, isn't that just an airplane?
They're radio amateurs giving their call signs, the station goes over so quickly and so many people want to use it that they don't have time for much else.
I had the same thought!
Peak Chad
Bruh please cut that mug 😂😂 what is that
🙌
We attempted to do this in my computer engineering class but never got a signal
It can be surprisingly tricky, I've had mixed luck getting the timing and aiming just right. If you're in a city or near trees or hills it can also limit reception. I've had commenters say they can hear the station with just a regular rubber antenna that comes with the radio, and others who say they can't hear it at all. I had to make sure to coordinate the positioning with n2yo.com and double-check if the repeaters were active via www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
Where’s the flat earth bots at
Здравствуйте! Вы могли бы сказать, размеры, расстояния в сантиметрах от самой приёмной части антенны (коротенькой трубочки до самой антенны (рефлектора)? Спасибо!
I don't have it in front of me to measure, but it should be the same as this one: www.amazon.com/TWAYRDIO-Antenna-400-470Mhz-Outdoor-Transceivers/dp/B08FC7JVQG?tag=namespacebran486-20
Cool😊
Hey man I've been wondering just for educational purposes, but could you conceivably work out the distance and location of something like the ISS from it's radio signals or is that not possible?
Um... wait, I can transmit to the space station and they have to listen? Time to get a HAM license.
Edit: I'm going to tell them about the space fish... thing.
I know this post is old but Do you need a ham license to use the basic baofang antenna? Because i have a camp with barely any service and this would be nice to have
I have that Radio, what antenna do I get?
I can't find it on Amazon now, these darn imported products come and go so fast. If you search UHF Yagi on there or eBay you'll see some options.
Is it legal to hear to their coms? this is so cool!
I'm listening to an amateur radio repeater on the station, here's some more info about it: www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
Yes, it's legal.
Show this to a flat earth we and they will be left scratching their heads
Something going around and around up there doesn't prove shape of anything...😅...just the smooth texture under your cranium
@@notchbak I hope you are not serious.
@@notchbak Are you ok>?