ISS Fan Club - General ISS forum

SSTV Activity in comming days?

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:44:29 -0500

Just found this information, looks like the SSTV unit maybe activated for a short period once again. '

Here is the link to where I read the information,....

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/iss_sstv.htm

73 and God Bless
De
Marc Tessier - VE3TES

Extend ISS past 2015?

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:18:31 -0500

The European Space Agency has asked that ISS stay up past 2015. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/esa_chief_plea_to_keep_iss/

Robin Warren
KE5DQM
Ivanhoe, Tx

soft errors

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:36:46 -0500

are electronic instruments in the IIS susceptible to soft errors (alpha induced errors in the computer chips)

Help

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:37:01 -0500

Hi
Can any one help, i have been listning on 145.800 for months and never hear anything...

Any one have any ideas please

Cheers
Kelvin

Happy New year!!

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:51:57 -0500

I'd like to wish everyone here a very good, and healthy new year.

Also my wish for everyone is as many opportunities to make QSOs via ISS/ARISS and other means of communication.

73', André PE1PQX

Has anyone heard the Packets on 145.825

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:01:56 -0500

I have been monitoring the packet frequency 145.825 for a few close passes to home and I did not hear the digi-repeater. Does anyone know if it is turned on?
Mike Lib

Eggbeater antenna

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:37:34 -0500

I have been working on a uhf eggbeater antenna for about a week and cannot get the thing to tune worth squat. As a matter of fact it won't tune at all. I used the plans posted by k50e and am at a loss as to what is causing it. I used 3' of shedule 40 pvc pipe as a platform, made the loops the right size, used rg/62 (93ohm) for the phasing line at 5.08"" and fed it with good rg8 coax. It will do nothing. Any hints or clear plans would be a help. Thanks

ISS virtual tour?

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:44:06 -0500

I was on reddit.com a few days ago and there was a cool submission of this website that let you go around in a sort of 3D virtual tour. Sort of like how Google Street View works only it was the inside of the ISS.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or what that URL is? I have been looking for it for 3 days and I can't find it!

Different QSL from I.S.S.?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:01:23 -0500

Hello to everyone
I need to know if the QSL had the same cover photo for all the radio links. (voice, SSTV and packet).
Thanks and 73s Enzo IW0fko

Recorded ISS Audio Archives Available

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:48:44 -0500

I realize it's not ham specific, but if you want to hear the archived ISS / Mission Control audio, it's being archived at http://issaudio.project10.net

Files are recorded using VOX, and are timestamped in Eastern Time (ET).

Never look at the newest file, that's just a placeholder for the current hour. Live audio is still available at NASA, but if you miss something or want to go back and look for specific events, use the NASA timelines and convert to ET (-5 right now) and you can pull it up!

- Rob - N8GSK

PS During shuttle missions, the feed switches over to NASA TV audio so you'l

new iss antennas?

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:06:29 -0500

Regarding some announcements on the addition of new antennas , etc on the ISS....

Hate to show my ignorance, but what was the signifigance of installing those new antennas in a different module? was there something wrong with the old set up and or did they plan to have 2 rigs going at same time, or perhaps decom a module?

thanks

N2EHG

ISS STS129 Undocked photo

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:28:13 -0500

This photo showing the ISS along with STS 129 was taking from Sacramento California just after they had undocked. I believe the first trail is the ISS followed by STS-129 just about 10 degrees apart. Just to give you an Idea of how bright they are (magnitude) the brightest object above and just to the left of the tree is Jupiter

Shot with NIKON D70s at 2009-11-25

ARISS IS NOT WORKING?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:57:02 -0500

Hi! I don`t have any signals from ISS since many days ago! and also the voice repeater in VHF-UHF..Is out! When is going to be active again? some iadea?

ISS Mode

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07:46 -0500

Hello to all
New here
How do you find out what mode the ISS is running??
Packet,simplex,crossband,etc
thanx to all
Howard

ARISS shut down??

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:00:33 -0500

Can any one confirm ARISS is shut down at the moment?? Haven't heard anything for about 2 days now...?