[amsat-bb] ISS DIGI

[Roger Kolakowski]

I used to be a regular user of the ISS digi exchanging one or two messages a pass and grids from keyboard to keyboard. It was a fun, quick activity.

I went away for a while and when I can back two mid Atlantic stations were beaconing up to every 3 seconds with occasional keyboard use. I tried for a couple of weeks and shut it down.

If you print your log or maintain rolling hard copy it is fun to treat it as a background "news" service of pass times and your antenna pattern.

Beacon every 1-2 min is probably fine during usable passes....maybe more often with a btext saying you are at the keyboard looking for contacts. Stations should adjust for activity.

Jmho

Roger
WA1KAT



"E.Mike McCardel" <mccardelm at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have made QSOs through the ISS digipeater. More often than not I use the
>digipeater to simply send my coordinates to test my equipment and make sure
>I'm tracking and getting through. It is a bit fun to see my transmission on
>ARISS.net. It's even more fun when I catch my own digipeat.
>
>Usin the digipeater is a great way for beginners to build skills. It's not
>used often but there is an official ARISS activity where schools can use
>the digipeater by send a couple lines of code to operate a remote robot
>some distance from their school. ARISS has also promoted and encouraged its
>use for schools who are preparing for an ARISS contact to send messages to
>other schools who are doing the same, so they get a first hand
>demonstration of space communication.
>
>73
>EMike
>
>On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Kevin Deane <summit496 at live.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone made any contacts at all? I doubt it, all shown are beacons
>> which are lame because they wear down the bats on PC-SAT  -44 remember that
>> bird?
>>
>> The packet on ISS is a waste of time maybe they should move the antenna or
>> something...
>>
>> Kevin
>> KF7MYK
>>
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