use of twitter to contact ISS
Hi all...just a thought but does anyone have access to twitter? Maybe this could be used to place a request to turn on the packet station.
Martin VK6MJ
vk6mj – Sat, 2010 – 02 – 20 06:58
Hi all...just a thought but does anyone have access to twitter? Maybe this could be used to place a request to turn on the packet station.
Martin VK6MJ
Twitter use ...
Hi Martin VK6MJ etc.. I have been using Twitter for several weeks in attempt to contact ham crew on ISS... without success.. The reason is now obvious. Australia,New Zealand are not in the major contributing group that put $'s into ISS...the general world population of hams do not figure in the current 'user group'. Most dissapointing !..... we may not be on air when there is an emergency on ISS.. our rescue service is not now regarded (?)..don't give up !.. someone might yet hear 'the wake-up call'..still 'lookin'up de downunder' ... Derek ZL1AKJ
Re: use of twitter to contact ISS
Hello Martin,
Asking via twitter does not help (crew are not allowed to take orders from outside).
And mission control would not take any requests from outisde.
Crew are busy and ham radio has not the prior.
There is an school contact planned at 25 Februari, we have to
see if the crew configure the radio in aprs mode after (that happened often in the past).
73's Cor PD0RKC
And what do you do with the
And what do you do with the aprs? I'm so tired of packet. I cannot ask too much so just the repeater will be fine. But it hasn't been on air for 1 and a half years.
Really, no one can speak to MCC? Kenneth, you are from JSC. Is that hard to get a chance to talk with the flight director?
I am sorry but in my opinion our best days are behind us and they finished with the second flight of C. Simonyi and I also wasn't a licensed ham operator at that time.
The reason I am a ham op is to contact the crew someday, this is why I'm so "angry" at this situation. I follow all the missions (Expeditions, shuttles, etc) and I understand that they are busy but...
YO9ICT
One radio
The problem with requesting the crossband repeater is the amount of time necessary to configure and deconfigure the radio. The number of steps to make the switch is about 25. This has to be done before and after every school contact since we only have the one Kenwood radio in operation. The steps to put the radio into packet mode is about 5 but I'm having difficulty even getting that done right now.
Amateur radio is operated as a crew preference item and as such is hard to get folks to prefer to keep it on when they don't have much interest. The availability of the radio in any mode is very dependent on the crew personalities. Some are very good at keeping it on (and some even will put it in special modes) while others just prefer to turn it off or do nothing with it after an event.
I've been working with my Russian counterpart to see about getting a second Kenwood up ther so we could have a dedicated crossband repeater mode. This could provide a different mode of operation in addition to packet but does not increase the chances of the crew getting on the radio to talk to folks on the ground. Another project in works is to get a power supply to support the VC-H1 so that SSTV images could be transmitted more regularly. Of course, international bureaucracy does take a lot longer than if you just did it yourself.
Kenneth - N5VHO
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Programming the Kenwood
Hi Ken....I am not familiar with the radio in use on the ISS but is it possible for these multiple commands to be sent to the rig via a laptop menu?
If these multiple commands can be reduced to a one click from a menu then it would cease to be an impost on the crew. For example:
1. Packet Radio
2. Cross Band Repeater
3. Slow Scan TV
4. Ariss School Contact
5. Emergency Radio Backup
Martin VK6MJ
Computer
The steps to configure a computer and execute the program would be just as long or longer than to run manually. The crossband mode cannot be configured by computer.
Kenneth - N5VHO
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Understand Kenneth. If I can
Understand Kenneth.
If I can do one thing and that thing can help others, be sure I will do it.
Maybe they don't want to screw it up :) .
YO9ICT
I use Twitter. I also have
I use Twitter. I also have on my friends list one of the astronauts, Soichi Noguchi. He tweets from the ISS but I cannot send message to him(direct message).
Maybe it's better to speak to someone from Mission Control.
Anyway, the radio will not stay on for so long because the Soyuzes that will came to the ISS in the next period.
Hope that Doug Wheelock will try his best at ham radio station.
Good idea, I will try what I can.