You might take a look at the skew planar wheel antenna. The feed arrangement is easier and it has better circularity throughout the signal pattern. It does have a pattern null straight overhead, but LEO satellites spend very little time there vs lower and middle elevation angles. A turnstile has good performance on-axis, but as an unsteered mobile antenna would have poor circularity and signal strength at lower elevation angles. For geosynchronous satellites that is less of an issue.
http://www.ve3byt.com/SkewPlanarAntenna/
http://vk6ysf.com/skew_planar_wheel_antenna.htm
For homebrew construction it would seem pretty feasible to build such an antenna onto a 1/4 wave threaded stud NMO base (
like this) or an NMO 3/8" mount base (
like this).
I'm not sure what the pattern would look like over a ground plane
For ~250MHz milsat a SPW would be nearly 2 feet in diameter though
. And if you're talking about 130MHz NOAA WX satellite downlinks, that would be... large
- over 3 feet diameter.
If you had a big flat vehicle roof on a trailer or something like that you could make patch antennas.