Thank you for this, I now have another way to have fun with radio. I was listening to both the BVARC repeater and the NARS repeater, at home, now I can listen to the ISS, and maybe one day talk to them. time to research how to scan with my radio so I can listen to 3 or more repeaters at once. Marc KI5ZHO
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 6:04 PM Bruce via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > This was recently posted on the AMSAT-BB. Hope it helps make your chances > of a QSO with the ISS a success. > > 73...bruce > > > =========================================================================================== > > Hi all, As has been posted numerous times by me to the AMSAT-BB, here are > some tips for making a general contact with the ISS. Please review the > possible contact times below, there will be no contact if the crew isn't > awake but happens to be over your location. There definitely will be no > contact if the ISS is not over your location when you elect to try. Make > sure your orbital prediction software has the latest Kep data and that the > computer clocks are synched to a time standard. Here is what I post with > every one of my postings to the AMSAT-BB. > > ********************************************************************************* > > > Comments on making general contacts > > I have been seeing a lot of traffic on Facebook and I suspect on other > social media sites with people asking why they are not hearing the crew > make general contacts. First off the crew is very busy on the ISS and they > simply may not have the time to just pick up the microphone and talk. > Also, one needs to be aware of their normal daily schedule. I have listed > below the constraints that we at ARISS have to follow in order to schedule > the school contacts. Hopefully this will help you better schedule your > opportunities. > > Typical daily schedule > > Wakeup to Workday start= 1.5 hours > > Workday start to Workday end=12 hours > > Workday end to Sleep= 2 hours > > Sleep to wakeup= 8.5 hours > > The crew's usual waking period is 0730 - 1930 UTC. The most common times > to find a crew member making casual periods are about one hour after waking > and before sleeping, when they have personal time. They're usually free > most of the weekend, as well. > > SSTV events are not that often. So please check out > https://www.ariss.org/ for the latest information or watch for the ARISS > announcements. > > And don’t forget that the packet system is active. > > As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS > radios are turned off as part of the safety protocol. > > The latest information on the operation mode can be found at > https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html > > The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at > https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html > > ********************************************************************************* > > We at ARISS can not make a crew member make general contacts. We have > sometimes suggested that someone might want to be on the air for something > like Field Day or Jamboree on the Air, but again we have limits. We work > with the ISS planners to get the school contacts scheduled as those > contacts are actually during scheduled time off that gets made up later in > the day. Some of the crew members played ham radio on earth many times and > are wanting to make general contacts; others may have gotten their license > just so that they could have contacts with the various schools under the > ARISS program and might not want to make general contacts. > > Contrary to one comment I have seen, they are not just active over > Europe. It just depends on their work schedule, the orbital track, time of > day, and many other factors. As shown above for the time constraints, this > means that a contact might be possible from 07:30-08:30 UTC and 18:30-19:30 > UTC. If you are in an area that is pretty sparse and the orbital track and > possible contact times all fit, then by all means give a call to the ISS. > You just never know what might happen. > > So the only thing we can suggest is to listen and if they are on the > radio, then go for it. In the meantime, the cross-band repeater is pretty > active. You just never know if a crew member hears a lot of chatter on > the cross-band and decides to pickup the microphone and join the fun. > > 73, > > Charlie Sufana AJ9N > > One of the ARISS mentors > > > =========================================================================================== > > -- > > Bruce Paige, KK5DO > > AMSAT Director Contests and Awards > AMSAT Board Member 2016-2024 > > ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE > > Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0200z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* > Also live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com > Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes > > Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org > > AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ >
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