Hi all,
Well, my Foundation license is still very shiny and new, but I want to aim high!
Anyone managed to make contact with the International Space Station?
I've found some info on this forum
http://www.issfanclub.com/node/7433
and according to Heavens Above, it'll fly overhead about 7:45pm this evening.
http://www.heavens-above.com
Let's see just how good the handheld can do!
Anyone with stories about space contact?
Cheers
Meg
(rapidly turning into Jodie Foster from "Contact")
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Good stuff Meg! Good luck with the antenna on the hand-held. Stranger things happen. I didn't realise they used FM. Might have a listen myself.
3.14159265358979 that's it for me.meg wrote:(rapidly turning into Jodie Foster from "Contact")
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I think S has just agreed with me that we need more antennae He's busily wrestling with the Chinglish manual to try and get the doppler shifted frequencies in. He says the trick is to think like Dr Suess. We are trying!
There's some more good info on this page too
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/arispak2.htm
There's some more good info on this page too
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/arispak2.htm
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I'm pretty sure that somebody has translated that manual. I'm just trying to think where I saw it. Might have been on hamshack's website.
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Found it. Hamshack has a link to a PDF here which might help you
http://www.trci.org.au/quangsheng%20tips.pdf
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Found it. Hamshack has a link to a PDF here which might help you
http://www.trci.org.au/quangsheng%20tips.pdf
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Haha yes, they're not the easiest things to program that's for sure - I found it a bit counter-intuitive. But then for a hundred bucks, they're still pretty good value I supposemeg wrote:Thanks Robbage - I do have that but I don't think it covers everything about the little ...darlings... they work well and aren't that difficult to program, but reading the manual to figure it out is a joke!
I still have both of mine (2m one and the 70cm one)
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Absolutely! I wasn't meaning to whinge, just vocalising as I bang my head...Zebedee wrote:But then for a hundred bucks, they're still pretty good value I suppose
I still have both of mine (2m one and the 70cm one)
We've decided to throw the towel in on the voice, and have instead installed a little linux app called qSSTV - now just 20 minutes to wait and see if we get any pictures
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Now where'd you get THAT idea from???meg wrote:I don't think so - just "channel 1" "channel 2" etc. The back of my radio is covered with stickers referencing what repeater is what frequency is what channel...
(Robbage, I had my Quansheng down at the last exam day and was showing off my label making skills with the various repeaters stuck all over the back of the battery pack )
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Muahahahahameg wrote:Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery You'll see S has them on his too next month.Zebedee wrote:Now where'd you get THAT idea from???
Have you told him yet how mean we all are?
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Thought I'd save that as a surpriseZebedee wrote:Have you told him yet how mean we all are?
Anyway, just had the scanner on what I thought was the voice downlink frequency (145.800) and heard VK6CO's side of a conversation with Richard Garriot on board the ISS. Didn't manage to grab the handheld and get out from under the tin roof quick enough to follow on!
edit: frequencies given are as follows - however on the Voice downlink freq, I only heard VK6CO, not Garriot. Have I gotten uplink and downlink around the wrong way?
* Voice and SSTV downlink - 145.800
* Voice Uplink- ITU 1 (Europe, Africa & Russia) - 145.200
* Voice Uplink - ITU 2&3 (Everywhere else) - 144.490
* Packet up and downlink - 145.825