Kev, I believe the decision is made by the ISS crew. This website tracks the current status and may give clues to upcoming events: http://www.issfanclub.com/
I believe that most of the time the station works in digipeater mode. I have been experimenting with using this over the past couple of weeks and its really kinda neat. It only requires a single-band radio, a fixed antenna, and a TNC. http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/ARISS_Packet_How_To/ has great instructions on getting started. AO-27 and SO-50 offer full-time FM repeaters. 73 de AJ4MJ On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM, mm0kjg <mm0...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello there. > Can someone tell me when the Iss repeater will be active. My thought's are > that if Oscar 51 is sick just now wouldn't it be nice to use the repeater > on > the Iss. Or is the repeater used only for School's chat's?. > > > Kev De MM0KJG > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
