Station location: Casale Monferrato North-western Italy JN45FC
Operator: Claudio Ariotti IK1SLD
IK1SLD is an ARISS VHF-UHF telebridge station as well as a HamTV ground station.
Telebridge VHF-UHF system
- crossed Yagi 15 + 15, , both VHF and UHF
- Preamplifiers installed near the antennas: SSB SP-2 VHF and SHF MVV 432/2 UHF
- switching Hor or Vert polarization
- rotor Yaesu G-5400B azimuth and elevation
HamTV S-band system
- 1.2meter dish with Pro.Sis.Tel rotator
- MiniTiouner receiver
- Transport Stream Merge over G4 line – 20 Mb Up- and Down
Computers
- PC #1 Core2Duo with Windows 7
- running Nova for antenna tracking with LVB Tracker interface
- running PCSat32.for doppler correction
- PC #2 Core2Duo with Windows 7
- running OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software) to web stream telebridge operations
- backup for PC #1
- PC #3 Core i3 with Windows 7
- running HamTV Tutioune software
- running Orbitron with WispDDE executable to command the Pro.Sis.Tel rotor
- WispDDE is special version written by Piero Tognolatti
- Claudio Ariotti – IK1SLD
- Fabio Inglese – IW1BND
- Giovanni Filippi – IZ1UWP
- Emiliano Binotto – IU1FHZ
- Max Canepa – IW1CNF (SK)