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May 28th
HamTV TEST by ISS on 1 June 2018 !
TEST HamVideo on ISS at 1 June !
The Ham Video system will be checked Friday June 1, 2018.
The transmitter will be down powered step by step. Next the antenna cable will be connected to the second antenna. Finally, the transmitter will be powered on step by step.
These operations are scheduled 17.25 – 17.55 UTC.
The next pass over Europe will be at 18.40 UTC.
Ground stations are invited to monitor the signal and report on this pass and later passes.
The Ham Video transmitter will be powered down Saturday June 2 at 23.30 UTC, due to a Soyuz undocking.
May 24th
MOVIE on Amateur radio that speak with a Russian Cosmonaut !
The Soviet cosmonaut remained in space while the USSR was no longer there !
The protagonist of the film "Sergio & Sergei" is inspired by his story, and befriends a Cuban amateur radio!
When the Soviet Union disappeared, it changed everything for a lot of people; those who lived there, those around them, and many around the world. And finally, for the Soviet cosmonaut Sergej Konstantinovič Krikalëv: instead he was in space, in the Mir space station, representing a state that in the meantime was gone.
May 13th
15 May ISS contact to school in Philippines but audible in USA !!
15 MAY an ISS school contact has been planned with participants at University of the Philippines Integrated School, Quezon City, Philippines !
The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:22 UTC.
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and W6SRJ
W6SRJ is the SANTA ROSA JR COLLEGE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
in Santa Rosa, CA (USA)
The contact is in TELEBRIDGE an is ONLY audible over the west coast of the U.S.
The contact is expected to be conducted in English.
May 4th
Couple minutes of school contact with mobile radio..
Just a couple minutes of a school contact that I recorded a few months back. I was planning to go out with an FT-60R and my Arrow, but was running a fever of 102 that morning. I was listening for a few minutes already when I thought to make a video recording. Radio is a TH-9800, antenna is a Fong DBJ-1 masted at ~30’, ISS was passing at ~12 degrees (IIRC).
May 1st
3 MAY two contacts to schools in USA !
3 MAY an ISS contact to school in Mill Springs Academy, Alpharetta - GA USA
at 15:47 UTC
direct contact to WA4MSA in Georgia.
audible ONLY in USA !
3 MAY an ISS contact to school at College Station - Texas USA
at 17:22 UTC
direct contato to W5QZ in Texas
audible ONLY in U.S.A. on 145.800 MHz FM ( RX ONLY !!! )
Follow this contact on our FB ISS fan club here :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/254653548367766/
73 de IW2BSF - Rudy