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the freqs don't make sense

souar – August 26, 2008 – 22:11

Hey

OK i'm newish to ham radio but never tried to listen to the iss. But i have a problem the uplink freq is also the same as the aprs freq here not aure what to do can anyone help.

Thanks

Nick

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Re: the freqs don't make sense

pd0rkc – August 27, 2008 – 16:08

Hello Nick,

Currently the ISS (ham) radio is not active.
Only a view school contacts will be done.
Not sure yet when packet comes back (Ken is working on that).
Mike Fincke is sceduled to go for 6 months to ISS.
Mike is intrested in amateur radio and we can
expect several activities.
So a bit patience might be worth waiting!
Here is a nice example of a ham contact (a while agoo) from
PU2WVF with US astronaut McArthur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBi_-d09yrw
Mendes made the contact with a simple vertical antenna.

73's Cor PD0RKC
Ham Radio In Space: http://iss.ontwikkel.nl

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RE; frequencies

N7SIJ – August 27, 2008 – 15:21

Hi Nick, The ISS freqencies are in the "Satellite only" portion of the band, you should not have any aprs traffic unless it is being relayed via satellite (space).
Do you have a callsign ? and where is "here" ?

73, Ron

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callsign and here

souar – August 27, 2008 – 19:46

Hi

I was about as stupid as it got there lol. the APRS is 144.800 and iss is 145.800 so that's sorted out. My callsign is M3YNB and my QTH is Portsmouth Hampshire UK and can be regularly found on 2m's on either 145.500 or 144.500 or listening in to the slow morse or cw channels. Also work for RAYNET.

73's

nick

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Re: callsign and here

pd0rkc – August 28, 2008 – 13:46

Hello Nick,

Last period ISS APRS was (for a long time) active on 145.825Mhz simplex!!!
With the high elevation (ISS) passes, Ireland and UK
are first in range (Lucky you!!!).

73's Cor PD0RKC

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