ISS Fan Club

My 1st contact with HT was in 2002 with Valery Korzum RS0ISS, using a old FT-208R with 2W and a vertical antenna, after I pass to a litle Yagi (3 elements), talk by some minutes, alone after pass of South of Brazil QRM.

In the 2nd contact, from PY0S St Peter and Paul Island in 2006, January 18th, I was use a FT-209R with only 100 mW and a 4 elements Yagi. I can talk with Bill NA1SS by 5 minutes or more, since I was so distant as 1000 km from any others stations.

I never can contact ISS with a Base Station.

I have worked the ISS APRS digipeater using a variety of antennas, stock antenna on my D7, hand held beam, TV twin lead J-pole and mobile whips with up to 5 watts input. I backpack in remote areas and having the ISS fly overhead a couple times a day allowed me to plot my position and work other APRS stations.

VE7QRZ
http://ve7qrz.googlepages.com/

Quite a few connects using the Kenwood TH-D7A[G] on Packet APRS.

When Bill McArthur was onboard, I attempted to make a contact dozens of times using an Icom IC-T90A handheld at 5 watts using a handheld Arrow antenna. I never had any success, even on direct overhead passes when I could hear him talking to other stations in the area. I worked lots of other satellites successfully with the same setup, but I never managed to talk to Bill. I guess he was just too popular! :-) Maybe now that Mikhail has been on the radio a little bit in the past few days, I'll have another chance to try. I have never attempted an APRS contact; it just doesn't interest me.

All of my contacts have been Packet APRS with my Icom isw32a HT , or Radio Shack HTX 202 and had a few Repeater comtacts with the Icom , but was not easy becouse of the Freq Shift is hard to get close enough on freq , and made 2 very pore voice to the crew , all contacts were with eather stk antenna or home brew yagi whitch I can get ISS from Horizon to Horizon with the 5 watts on APRS and also Repeater if I get the freq shift correct .Tha hardest part with the HT is the Dopler shift , my radio only does 5kc's I wish there was a way to change freqs by at least 2 kc's then it would be easyer,,

I'am made voice contacts from Bangkok,Thailand My first contact ISS-Expedition 11 RS0ISS Commander Sergei Krikalov U5MIR and ISS-Expedition 12 NA1SS Commander Mr. "Bill" McArthur” I' am also done packet BBS ,APRS,PCSAT-2 via the ISS using a Yaesu FT-2800M antenna. yagi 5 el

HS2WAQ

I made contact from my QTH in Valdivia to Santiago (800 km away) via ISS Repeater in the last Field Day. I just had my HT. It's a Yaesu VX-2 and no special antena, just the small one. Good signal and nice report from other stations.

ISS crossband repeater works very good. I think it'd be on the air again for long time.

Best 73' s for all.

Hi!

I made all 3 of my ISS voice contacts with just an HT, the Icom IC-T7H. My first contact in December 2005 was done with a Maldol AH-510R 6m/2m/70cm telescoping whip antenna (similar to the ANLI/Premier AL-800 whip, but IMO sturdier), and my other 2 contacts in March 2006 were with an Arrow Antennas 2m/70cm handheld Yagi. All at 5W. For all of these contacts, I was standing outside my office in the center of Phoenix, Arizona [grid DM33xl].

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Phoenix, Arizona USA
http://www.wd9ewk.net/

I have had voice contacts with the crew using a Kenwood D7 and an arrow antenna but I have also worked the ISS using and Icom 2GAT and an ANLI AL-800 whip antenna. I have also done packet via the ISS using the D7 and stock antenna.

Kenneth - N5VHO
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/
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