Build a quarter wave ground plane antenna with a turnstile antenna as a reflector? Try to receive in the VHF band.
See this video:
How to Build: Ham Radio 2 Meter Quarter Wave Antenna - K7AGE -- Apr 9, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmD3Sgz7Q0
Also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile_antenna
Just the bottom half of this, the top half will be the quarter wave antenna.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_types#/media/File:SatelliteAntenna-137MHz_closeup.jpg)
How do I know the spacing between the quarter wave antenna at the top, and wave antenna at the bottom?
Use an RTL-SDR. Use welding rod as wire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflector_(antenna)
For now, don't worry about this:
https://github.com/Blockstream/satellite
(it requires different hardware it seems)
If you want to do LoRa uplink/downlink try FoSSaSat.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Antenna thoughts.
#302 We build a 20 Dollars LoRa Satellite Ground Station and we follow the FossaSat-1 launch
or Lacuna Space
It looks like you would want to stick with the {Quarter Wave}/{Ground Plane Antenna} as it might be easier to find satellites (rather than one or just a few!)
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