[amsat-bb] ISS SSTV weekend

[Don KB2YSI]

I'm working the Armstrong rotor too!

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 19:44 sean fay via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Im out there with my hand held arrow with zero issues.  Would like to know
> who all is doing automated vs manual?
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 4:23 PM GEO Badger via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Don't know, decoded a bunch, some fuzzy, some not.
> > However, I have an automated system that steers the antenna, and records
> > the pix. I could hear it clicking away on the roof in the middle of the
> > night.
> > ---
> >  Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side.
> >  GEO
> >
> >  http://www.w3ab.org
> >
> > Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
> >
> >     On Sunday, April 14, 2019, 4:13:57 PM PDT, sean fay via AMSAT-BB <
> > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >
> >  Entitled choosing beggars the lot of you
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 6:03 PM Tom Schuessler <tjschuessler at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The only time I got to listen this weekend was on a 1455z AOS for me
> this
> > > morning and as reported have the BB all weekend long modulation levels
> > were
> > > down in the dirt. I had my HT volume cranked almost all the way up.
> > That’s
> > > not normal for these activities. Just trying to understand why a whole
> > > weekend can go with that situation and not a solution was to be had.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > On Apr 14, 2019, at 15:26, sean fay <spatrickfay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sometimes it's the Wizard not the wand... I had no issues decoding
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 1:44 PM Tom Schuessler via AMSAT-BB <
> > > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Quoting the news release promoting the transmissions this weekend.
> > >>
> > >> “This event uses a computer in the ISS Russian Segment, which stores
> > >> images that are then transmitted to Earth using the ARISS amateur
> radio
> > >> station located in the Service Module which employs the Kenwood TM
> D710E
> > >> transceiver.”
> > >>
> > >> Well while trying fruitlessly this morning to decode cleanly, the
> images
> > >> from the ISS, I heard the collective scream of hams all over the
> world,
> > >> “TURN THAT COMPUTER SOUND CARD OUTPUT VOLUME UP PLEASE!”
> > >>
> > >> Next time.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Tom, N5HYP
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