[amsat-bb] ISS Beacons

[Robert Switzer]

Patrick,
Thanks, the other op has replied back and will upload to LOTW later today.
Rob KA2CZU 

    On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:06 AM, Patrick STODDARD <patrick at wd9ewk.net> wrote:
 

 Rob, 

You just make sure replies go to amsat-bb at amsat.org if you want them 
to go back to the list. I think the list may be set up so simply 
pressing Reply will reply to whoever posted the message. 

I saw your post on the QRZ satellite forum, and I plan on posting
there as well. Nice job! Keep in mind that you can have a QSO, even
if the http://ariss.net site doesn't capture all of the transmissions
that make up your QSO. It's just like anything else - if both stations
make the exchange and consider it a QSO, it's a QSO. 

73!




Patrick


On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Robert Switzer <rs2atmink at yahoo.com> wrote:

(Not sure how to reply to the thread)
Got my first ISS contact on yesterday's 21:39z pass using a baofeng uv5r, elk, mobilinkd tnc2 and a cheap droid ( non active ) phone.
The channel was very busy so I only got one contact through but the other op was able to get 4 or 5,Based on the logs.
I didn't look for my info on arises.net later and saw you, but not sure if or how I can poke back for earlier pass data.
73,
Rob KA2CZU


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On Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 12:13 AM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) <amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net> wrote:
Hi Mark!

You can do a CQ over the ISS digipeater, or just send something like
an APRS position packet or a packet with your position and a short
comment. If you use APRS messages, you can use them to make QSOs.
I just did that tonight for the first time in a few months,
working two Texas stations with my TH-D72A HT and Elk log periodic
from my driveway. Using the ariss.net wen site, I could see my
packets and most of my two QSOs captured by Internet gateways,
and a missed QSO with a California station. My TH-D72A will store
and display APRS messages, but freeform twxt typed into a terminal
program won't be displayed on my HT unless the text is formatted
as an APRS message. For example, a station could type this and (if I
receive it) have it displayed on my HT's screen and saved as a
received APRS message:

WD9EWK-9 :hello from (grid, city/state, etc.)

On my HT, I'd see the call that sent this message, and the text following
the space and colon that trail my call. This makes it easy for stations
using the APRS-capable radios, as well as software like UISS, to make
QSOs and both sides seeing the QSO happen.

It tends to be rapid-fire, since you only have up to 10 minutes in
an ISS pass, and there could be a lot of activity coming through the
ISS digipeater - especially the further east you go in the continental
USA. Passes that only touch the southwestern USA are really easy
for the low-power stations (like me) to get through. I do OK on other
passes that cover more of the country, even with only 5W.

73!





Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @WD9EWK



On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Mark Lunday <mlunday at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> <My first packet on an ISS pass always includes a CQ.>
>
> OK, call me ill-informed, I did not know you could do CQ and
> keyboard-to-keyboard QSO's.  I thought you could only send short messages.
> Is that how you do it?  The ISS pass is so fast...
>
> Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
>
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