LU 5DFO saw again the ISS over La Plata city, before sunrise,sat 2011-08-20 from W to SSE, from 10.05 to 10.08 ours UTC, 30 degree elevation, altitude 406 Km, speed 7663 m/s,minimum distance 812 Km, mag -2.3, not signals packet, with clear sky.

A recent school contact is the featured item #4 on http://www.nasa.gov today (Aug 17). Not sure how long it will be there but the story is available at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ARISS_Trinidad.html

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_SPACEX_SPACE_STATION_?SITE...

SpaceX's next mission is to the International Space Station.

The Hawthorne, Calif.-based private rocket maker said Monday its Dragon capsule will launch on Nov. 30 on a cargo test run to the orbiting outpost. SpaceX said the launch will be followed by a station docking more than a week later.

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Bonjour à tous

J'ai eu la chance d'entendre mon CQ sur le downlink de Radioskaf-B juste avant que le séquenceur ne coupe la fonction transponder U/V pour passer à autre chose ..........
Au passage suivant du satellite en visibilité , la batterie donnait des signes de faiblesse ................ De profundis !
Ce n'est pas grave car Radioskaf-B n'est qu'un gadget sans grande application Radio Amateur , seulement bon pour " public relation "

I have noticed over the last couple of days that the signals from ARISSat-1 have become very poor and hardly discernible. Is there a reason for this. I'm afraid I can only listen in with my scanner and an external discone ariel which has always given me good results with the ISS.

Hello folks,
I have visited the TSNIIMASH website recently, and discovered that the ET Shadow project has been upgraded along with the rest of the TSNIIMASH website. It did appear to be in the doldrums for a while. It has a new look as well.

All participants that have previously registered may need to re-register, I saw a list with one individual on it, so I re-registered, now there are two.

I don't know if they plan to add previous registrants or require those still interested to come back and voice their interest by continuing their registration.

got some packet on 145.95 from rs0iss ,,,RS0ISS packet radio has intermitted on ARISsat freq

LU 5DFO saw again the ISS over La Plata cityafter sunset Sat 2011 - 08 - 06, from SW to ENE, from 22.02 to 22.09 ours UTC, 62 degree elevation, altitude 399 Km, speed 7670 m/s,minimum distance 451 Km, mag -3.4, not signals packet, with clear sky.-

Hello ... this morning i was calling cq over the transponder from RS01S, using 50 Watt in a 18-turn helix, here you can here how it was:
www.radiotongeren.be/RS01S/RS01S-cq-on6hn-06-08-2011.mp3

73 ... Hugo ON6HN

LU 5DFO saw again the ISS over La Plata city, after sunset,Fri 2011 - o8 - 05, from 23.00 to 23.04 ours UTC, 48 degree elevation, altitude 397 Km, speed 7672 m/s,minimum distance 534 Km, mag -2.3, not signals packet, with clear sky.