[amsat-bb] ISS Repeater Clarification

Greg D ko6th.greg at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 22:54:58 UTC 2017


So, if we use the repeater, are we competing (interfering) with the
student experiments?  Or, is that only geographically related (i.e. over
Russia)?

Greg  KO6TH


John Brier wrote:
> There is no tone. The thing to remember is this is not being turned on
> for random contacts. It is setup to retransmit one of the student sats
> that was recently deployed by hand from the ISS during a Russian EVA.
> That sat transmits on 437.050 and that is why the uplink is 437.050
> and not the "normal" 437.800 that is published as the repeater
> frequency on ariss.org for example.
>
> 73, John Brier KG4AKV
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Mike Diehl <diehl.mike.a at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 437.050 uplink
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Mike Diehl
>> AI6GS
>>
>>> On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:50 PM, Richard Lawn <rjlawn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just to clarify, the downlink is 145.800 and uplink is 437.800? Is there a
>>> tone. Someone posted the wrong uplink frequency I think and I just
>>> monitored a wonderful pass with lots of great signals heard in FN21. I was
>>> unable to hear myself and suspect I had the wrong uplink frequency.
>>> Thanks for clarification
>>> 73
>>> Rick, W2JAZ
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