[amsat-bb] Dagget Montessori ARISS reception report

[John Brier]

In Raleigh, NC I picked up Kjell in the middle of his answer to
question 4. Kjell got through answering question 10 but after that
there was a longer than normal break and then Kjell said goodbye and
signed off. The end of that last transmission was at 10:24:04 Eastern,
I believe that's 14:24:04 UTC.

I was surprised he lost them that early because I had their pass
ending at 10:26:06 Eastern (14:26:06 UTC). I was using keps downloaded
last night from Celestrak in Orbitron.

Forth Worth:
Time                Satellite              Azm  Elv  Mag Range S.Azm S.Elv
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2015-10-29 10:15:32 ISS                  207.1  0.0  2.7  2356 119.0  17.0
2015-10-29 10:20:49 ISS                  130.6 33.5  0.2   684 119.9  17.9
2015-10-29 10:26:06 ISS                   54.7  0.0  3.0  2363 120.8  18.9

Normally the ARISS passes are below 20 degrees for me and this time it
was a 42 degree pass so I picked up the Columbus module stronger than
ever before. At least S9 signal at one point and the audio was cleaner
than normal with no hiss.

Raleigh:
Time                Satellite              Azm  Elv  Mag Range S.Azm S.Elv
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2015-10-29 10:19:01 ISS                  241.3  0.0  2.8  2358 135.2  28.0
2015-10-29 10:20:20 ISS                  244.7  5.0  2.3  1823 135.5  28.2
2015-10-29 10:24:24 ISS                  322.9 42.7 -0.1   574 136.4  28.8
2015-10-29 10:28:27 ISS                   40.1  5.1  2.4  1823 137.4  29.3
2015-10-29 10:29:48 ISS                   43.7  0.0  3.0  2370 137.7  29.5

I have audio/video of all this and I'll probably make a video out of
it for YouTube.

John, KG4AKV