Contact with ISS
Moderator: VK6ZMS
-
- Moderator
- Posts: 2993
- Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:06 am
- Amateur callsign: VK6UFO_VK6RN
- Scanners and Receivers:
Scanners/receivers
Diamond Welz WS1000 wideband handheld
Radioshack Pro 28 handheld
Uniden UBC72XLT handheld
Uniden UBC73XLT handheld
Uniden UBC330CRS desktop
Two-way
Yaesu VX-3R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wideband RX handheld
Yaesu FT-1802M 2m Ham TRX mobile x 2
Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile
Icom IC-208H 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile
Icom IC-706MKIIG all-band all-mode Ham TRX mobile
Icom IC-V85 2m VHF Ham TRX handheld
Wouxun KG-UVD1P VHF/UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld
Wouxun KG-679P VHF wideband Ham TRX handheld
Wouxun KG-713 UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld - Location: Just on the border of your waking mind
Re: Contact with ISS
I heard packet on 145.825 this morning. Dunno the origins though.. was a couple of bursts around S2 and then nothing for 10 minutes so I left.
Rob
OF78WD
Amateur moderator
.
→Arguing with a fool proves there are two
OF78WD
Amateur moderator
.
→Arguing with a fool proves there are two
-
- Moderator
- Posts: 1256
- Joined: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:41 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6LUX
- Scanners and Receivers: Yaesu: FT990, FT857, FT7800, VX7R. Icom: ID800H. Old RS scanner.
- Location: arrived south - code 44
Re: Contact with ISS
Same here I called and it responded - it was like being in the David Bowie song "Starman"VK6ZMS wrote:I spoke to a UFO last night
WARSUG FESA and Scanning Special Events moderator
-
- Moderator
- Posts: 2993
- Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:06 am
- Amateur callsign: VK6UFO_VK6RN
- Scanners and Receivers:
Scanners/receivers
Diamond Welz WS1000 wideband handheld
Radioshack Pro 28 handheld
Uniden UBC72XLT handheld
Uniden UBC73XLT handheld
Uniden UBC330CRS desktop
Two-way
Yaesu VX-3R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wideband RX handheld
Yaesu FT-1802M 2m Ham TRX mobile x 2
Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile
Icom IC-208H 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile
Icom IC-706MKIIG all-band all-mode Ham TRX mobile
Icom IC-V85 2m VHF Ham TRX handheld
Wouxun KG-UVD1P VHF/UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld
Wouxun KG-679P VHF wideband Ham TRX handheld
Wouxun KG-713 UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld - Location: Just on the border of your waking mind
Re: Contact with ISS
Unavailable For Objection
Rob
OF78WD
Amateur moderator
.
→Arguing with a fool proves there are two
OF78WD
Amateur moderator
.
→Arguing with a fool proves there are two
-
- Moderator
- Posts: 1256
- Joined: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:41 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6LUX
- Scanners and Receivers: Yaesu: FT990, FT857, FT7800, VX7R. Icom: ID800H. Old RS scanner.
- Location: arrived south - code 44
Re: Contact with ISS
This link was on the AmsatVK list today - NASA's spectrum plan. Plenty of potential listening up there!
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/spectru ... ov2007.pdf
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/spectru ... ov2007.pdf
WARSUG FESA and Scanning Special Events moderator
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 2610
- Joined: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:33 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6HGR
- Scanners and Receivers: Various Yaesu, Kenwood, Tait, Simoco and Philips'
- Location: Perth, Western Australia
- Contact:
Re: Contact with ISS
I've sent some APRS packets to the ISS on 145.825MHz over the last few nights and I've successfully received a reply - woohoo!
I sent:
It replied:
(Note the RS0ISS-3* - the star means "repeated by")
Radio is a Yaesu FT-857 with Orbitron predicting the passes. The antenna is a 2m quad-band vertical I had on my old car on the pergola with a mag mount and I'm using a $3 ebay USB sound card as the modem
Interestingly, the crew leave messages for us on the ground:
I sent:
Code: Select all
Mon Aug 10 01:51:40 2009 VK6HGR-2>APU25N,ARISS,WIDE,SGATE:=3152.06S/11556.38E-VK6HGR Beechboro Western Australia
Code: Select all
Mon Aug 10 01:51:42 2009 VK6HGR-2>APU25N,RS0ISS-3*,WIDE,SGATE:=3152.06S/11556.38E-VK6HGR Beechboro Western Australia
Radio is a Yaesu FT-857 with Orbitron predicting the passes. The antenna is a 2m quad-band vertical I had on my old car on the pergola with a mag mount and I'm using a $3 ebay USB sound card as the modem
Interestingly, the crew leave messages for us on the ground:
Code: Select all
Sat Aug 8 04:12:24 2009 RS0ISS-3>P0PPP0,VK6FUN-2,WIDE:'vXl '/]Canadarm2 ready to grab PMA3
Sun Aug 9 01:24:32 2009 RS0ISS-3>P0PPP0,VK6FUN-2,WIDE,SGATE:'vXl '/]Canadarm2 moved PMA3 to Port
Sun Aug 9 21:54:00 2009 VK6HGR-1>APRS,WIDE3-2:}RS0ISS-3>P0PPP0,TCPIP*,VK6HGR*:'vXl '/]A day for housekeeping &rest
Mon Aug 10 02:38:07 2009 VK6HGR-1>APRS,WIDE3-2:}RS0ISS-3>P0PPP0,TCPIP*,VK6HGR*:'vXl '/]Today is Roman's birthday!
Gavin Rogers; VK6HGR
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 2610
- Joined: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:33 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6HGR
- Scanners and Receivers: Various Yaesu, Kenwood, Tait, Simoco and Philips'
- Location: Perth, Western Australia
- Contact:
Re: Contact with ISS
Here's the help card from ISS's BBS (RS0ISS-11) so you don't waste an entire pass downloading it from the ISS to try and figure out how to use the thing (like someone I know )
Code: Select all
Welcome to RS0ISS's message board
System Ver 1.50 108026 Bytes free
Commands
W(rite) = Type W (callsign)<cr> to begin message entering.
Subject: = Header(max 30 characters) are entered after
the prompt: "Subject:".
Ending the header with a carriage return <cr>.
Message: = Message are entered after the prompt: "Message:".
Ending each line with <cr>.
You terminate with either a <cr>/EX<cr> or <cr><ctrl-Z><cr>
to the indicate end of your message.
B(ye) = Type B<cr> to DISCONNECT.
F(ile) = Type F<cr> to show the lates
L(ist) = Type L<cr> to show the all messages.
M(ine) = Type M<cr> to show latest 20 messages (to or from you).
Subsequent F or M command will show next 20 active messages.
R(ead) = Type R n<cr> to show the number n message.
A(bort) = Type A<cr> to Abort.
J = Type J<cr> to show connect stations.
K(ill) = Type K n<cr> to delete the number n message (only to or from you).
H(elp)or ?= Type H<cr> or ?<cr> to display this.
CMD(F/K/M/R/W/B/H/?)>
Gavin Rogers; VK6HGR
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
-
- 150+ posts
- Posts: 662
- Joined: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:04 pm
- Scanners and Receivers: Yaesu FT-857 Yaesu FT7800 Icom ID800H
- Location: Perth
- Contact:
Re: Contact with ISS
Hehehe good work Gav, its hard to use packet with the iss on the count of how many people in perth all try to log on at the same time.
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 2610
- Joined: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:33 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6HGR
- Scanners and Receivers: Various Yaesu, Kenwood, Tait, Simoco and Philips'
- Location: Perth, Western Australia
- Contact:
Re: Contact with ISS
That's amateur radio for you. Space pileupslipknot wrote:Hehehe good work Gav, its hard to use packet with the iss on the count of how many people in perth all try to log on at the same time.
Gavin Rogers; VK6HGR
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
Re: Contact with ISS
Taken from VKlogger forum.
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2009-08-21 05:00 UTC
Volkssterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Antwerp, Belgium, telebridge via VK4KHZ
Contact is a go for: Mon 2009-08-24 11:30:49 UTC 50 deg VK4KHZ
The downlink audio should be audible across the East Coast of Australia on 145.800 FM this monday night at 11:30UTC.
There appears to be a mutal window around 1130UTC so you might just hear a very short portion of this for about a minute. If they start at the specified time then very little chance but if they try when they are in range ( a minute earlier) it is possible it could be heard. It will be very low to the east at the time. Don't bother calling as they have this arranged and I seriously doubt they would reply and you would only be QRM. Just a slight, very slight opportunity to hear the ISS on voice.
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2009-08-21 05:00 UTC
Volkssterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Antwerp, Belgium, telebridge via VK4KHZ
Contact is a go for: Mon 2009-08-24 11:30:49 UTC 50 deg VK4KHZ
The downlink audio should be audible across the East Coast of Australia on 145.800 FM this monday night at 11:30UTC.
There appears to be a mutal window around 1130UTC so you might just hear a very short portion of this for about a minute. If they start at the specified time then very little chance but if they try when they are in range ( a minute earlier) it is possible it could be heard. It will be very low to the east at the time. Don't bother calling as they have this arranged and I seriously doubt they would reply and you would only be QRM. Just a slight, very slight opportunity to hear the ISS on voice.
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those who do not.
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 2610
- Joined: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:33 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6HGR
- Scanners and Receivers: Various Yaesu, Kenwood, Tait, Simoco and Philips'
- Location: Perth, Western Australia
- Contact:
Re: Contact with ISS
I've written some scripts that'll let you see what my stations sees from ISS.
mheard on the satgate port:
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/cgi-bin/mheard?sgate
List of packets received from ISS for the last 2 days:
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/cgi-bin/issheard
mheard on the satgate port:
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/cgi-bin/mheard?sgate
List of packets received from ISS for the last 2 days:
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/cgi-bin/issheard
Gavin Rogers; VK6HGR
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
http://vk6hgr.ampr.org/
WARSUG forum administrator
Site and stream donations: https://www.paypal.me/vk6hgr
Re: Contact with ISS
Hey Gav,
Even though I can't "use" packet with my license, I'm interested in setting up a ground receiving station similar to what you have. Are you able to give me a bit more info about the setup? The software that you use?
I've got a netbook, a scanner and a discone mounted out the back. Would be nice to downlink some info, just for kicks
Cheers
Even though I can't "use" packet with my license, I'm interested in setting up a ground receiving station similar to what you have. Are you able to give me a bit more info about the setup? The software that you use?
I've got a netbook, a scanner and a discone mounted out the back. Would be nice to downlink some info, just for kicks
Cheers
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 3022
- Joined: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:42 pm
- Amateur callsign: VK6DB
- Location: Perth
- Contact:
Re: Contact with ISS
Well, you know the answer to that!Bonez wrote:Even though I can't "use" packet with my license...
(Sorry, I just had to )
Doug Bell (Zebedee) VK6DB
WARSUG Forum Administrator.
It is very dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
WARSUG Forum Administrator.
It is very dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Re: Contact with ISS
There's nothing stopping me downlinking the data though. Any hobbiest can do that with a scanner and a PC without a licenseZebedee wrote:Well, you know the answer to that!Bonez wrote:Even though I can't "use" packet with my license...
(Sorry, I just had to )