For all of you that are still waiting for their certificates, please make sure that you forwarded your coordinates and reception reports to the ARISS delegate of your region/organization. The information will be collected and forwarded to the ARISS chair for processing.

For a list of the current delegates please go to: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/arissinf.htm

Hope this helps.

73, Stefan VE4NSA

Greetings all-
I guess this has to be the minute of highest stress, as my D710 is 48 hours old,
The ISS just past overhead and I have no idea what I'm doing. I've spent 4 days combing through the web for some kind of site that actually puts more than one element of this INCREDIBLY EXCITING mode on a web page. All I find is idea fragments, anecdotal references and after the fact -YeHaw I did it's. The last time I felt like this was 1990 when I asked a friend "So, how do you operate the internet?". I'm as savvy as they get technically, but I can see -there is no place to get any traction in the basic concepts of "what the heck is going on here".

I successfully connected to the ISS bbs and uploaded a message using only a 2.5W Jingtong radio and homemade J-Pole antenna!

The J-Pole antenna was strung up in a tree in the garden, under which i sat with my radio and laptop. Living in Cape Town, South Africa means I have the ISS to myself on most passes.

Just proving its possible!

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LU1HVK 14-Mar-26 07:40:55
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CX1AQN 14-Mar-26 09:18:29
PU2PYC 14-Mar-26 09:20:11
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162 41 /0852 PU2UDX>ALL hello all
140 199 Y 23-Feb/1720 RK3DXB>E20YJC Hallo!
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E20YJC

G'day folks,
here is the message list that I just downloaded from the ISS.

I didn't get the complete list, so consider it an update to the last.

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Jan 12 2008 11:30 UTC
Orbit 52378 +81 mins

UISS conversation
PMS message list from ISS while over Australia.

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183 362 02-Mar/1259 PU2KEY>ALL Hallo friends
162 41 /0852 PU2UDX>ALL hello all

Todays ISS data from Oz. Jan 03 2008 08:28 UTC

Orbit 52234 +63 mins

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134 144 22-Feb/2144 IZ7GEG>ALL
133 59 22-Feb/2002 F1AHH >ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008
130 36 22-Feb/1247 NH7WN >ALL Happy New Year
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129 47 /0452 F1AHH >ALL happy new year
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essais de msg

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G'day folks, just had a go and saw another station I'd not seen before, VK2MAL.
Welcome aboard mate.

Here is the first few messages on the list, it's all I had time for as it got to quiet when it approached the South Isle of Kiwiland.

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133 59 22-Feb/2002 F1AHH >ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008

Whats with the date ?? February ??

Wowweee, I just got ISS to digipeat while it was only just a few degrees above the horizon with 10 watts out. Unfortunately it was in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica at the time.
It then cruised over New Zealand. I could hear its beacon but it could no longer hear me.
I tried.
I seem to have a lobe of opportunity at only a few degrees above the horizon. I am using only a VHF mobile whip on the roof.
I will try again in a few orbits. ISS will be closer.