Hello all we had a great pass by ISS and crossband repeater at 1830z 22 July 2005 . The repeater is very good i operation and easy to work with a omni antenna and my icom 706m2g

Hello All,

There are a few things what you should know to operate the ISS repeater.
Do not use too loud mic-modulation otherwise the repeater goes off for a few moments.
The squelch level in the ISS repeater is at a high level so it requeres to put a strong signal on the TX (70cm) uplink to ISS.

Hello All,

The ISS repeater mode is switched on!
It means the ISS is in the cross-band
repeater mode.
Everyone who want to operate the ISS repeater
must understand the doppler freq. shift!!!!
If you do not correct your doppler freq it will
give QRM to all! (so if you do not know do not operate!!!).
The doppler game is very easy the understand.
Please look at:
http://pd0rkc.mine.nu/issdoppler.html

Good luck!
73's Cor PD0RKC
http://pd0rkc.mine.nu

Ownership of the European-built Cupola observation module for the International Space Station (ISS) was officially transferred to NASA on 7 July 2005. The signature took place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMDK0808BE_iss_0.html

If you have not updated your Keplerian Elements recently your tracking of the ISS may be off.

In preparation of the Space Shuttle's Return to Flight the ISS received one final reboost to increase the Station's altitude for its upcoming rendezvous with Space Shuttle Discovery.

Last week the engines of a Progress spacecraft docked to the Station were commanded to burn for 7 minutes and 20 seconds, boosting the altitude of the Station nearly 4 miles. This second and final reboost puts the Station into position for rendezvous opportunities beginning on the third flight day during most of Discovery's July 13-31 launch window.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/news/

The Nevada Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc club, retransmits shuttle radiotraffic via VoIP IRLP Western Reflector Channel 2 (9252) as an listen only16 bit audio stream. All IRLP Nodes world wide are welcome to connect to9252 to receive audio for localized broadcasts. In Las Vegas 447.000 is used.

NASA is targeting Tuesday, July 26 as the earliest possible date to launch the Space Shuttle Discovery on the Return to Flight mission (STS-114). The determination was made during Monday's meeting of the Mission Management Team (MMT) at Kennedy.

From AMSAT Sarex reflector:
Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips left the International Space Station today for a short ride, relocating their Soyuz return craft from one docking port to another to free up a Russian airlock for a future spacewalk.

This will be a contact with teachers attending a class at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and was set up to give NASA Explorer School Educators an opportunity to understand how to utilize satellite communications and satellite data in their classroom. One facet of this class is the use of ARISS in the classroom. Through this experience, they will be much better prepared when their schools perform an ARISS contact.

Contact is set for 1730 UTC on July 20 and should be audible on 145.80 to stations in and around the Maryland region of the USA.

The next ARISS International Teleconference will be held on Tuesday, July 19 at 11:30 UTC.

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm