[amsat-bb] ISS Beacons

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In UISS, I just set the "To:" field to CQ. Essentially, the callsign is
CQ. 

Steve AI9IN 

On 2016-04-20 19:58, Rick Tejera wrote: 

> Patrick,
> 
> When sending a CQ message, What call sign would you send to? I get how to
> respond with user phrases or position comments, but how do you get that
> first CQ out to whoever is listening?
> 
> Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
> STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 9:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ISS Beacons
> 
> 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
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> 
> 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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