Hi,

At these timeslots the orbits are quite similar and covers about the same part of the globe.
Unfortunately for many countries, their hams have no chance of receiving anything during these timeslots/orbits.
Why not give more hams a change to pick up these transmissions the second day through improved scheduling?

Anybody agree/disagree?

Keith
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You will only hear the astronaut speaking and not the school. Because of the SSTV transmissions on 145.800Mhz at same time the voice contact might be a little harder to hear now it's moved over to Ericsson UHF 5 watts 437.525Mhz.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. Lucie (3rd): What is the reference time on board?
2. Lorene (3rd): Do you make yourself your dioxygen or do you have any reservations?
3. Mélanie (3rd): How do you do if someone gets seriously injured in the station?
4. Anna (3rd): What are your experiences now?
5. Louis (3rd): Have you made any discoveries?
6. Matthew (3rd): Can there be fog in your helmet?
7. Rozenn (3rd): Is gravity constant in the ISS during its revolution?
8. Laure (3rd): How do you physiologically feel the variation in severity between the Earth and the ISS?
9. Hugo (3rd): Is the water you consume recycled or comes from stocks?
10. Hugo (3rd): Where are we on the experiences with the inflatable housing?
11. Anthony (3rd): Apart from the Earth, what can you observe in space from the ISS? Do you see stars?
12. Enola (3rd): What is the most beautiful thing you have seen?
13. Ximena (3rd): What temperature does it do in the ISS and in space?
14. Tom (3rd): How long can you walk normally when you return to Earth?
15. Maud (3rd): Are there important steps to manage when you return to Earth in the Soyuz capsule?
16. Samuel (3rd): How do you know that night has fallen?
17. François (3rd): How do you do if you lose the radio link with the Earth?
18. Alicia (3rd): During an outing in space, how long do you have autonomy?
19. Leila (3rd): How do you feed yourself, do you grow crops?
20. Bleuenn (3rd): How do you know that you are upside down or in the place in the ISS?

On a contact like this, will you be able to hear both sides of the conversation on the downlink? Or will you only hear the astronaut speaking and not the school?

hola, estoy en argentina, y leo que las emisiones de sstv para esos dias son en orbitas rusas. Solo en esa zona se recibiran. O se podra por esta parte del mundo recibir sstv tambie.
Agradeceria informacion gracias pablocattaneo2011@gmail.com

Since the VHF Digipeater has recently died, will it still transmit on 145.800 MHz? Or will it move the UHF?

I wil be recieving today (I will be at work) I have seen a 5 element 144 + 8 element 432 boom 1,5 meter at ebay (in italy)
Did you see that I get over PSAT sunday :-)

Very fine the DK1WB are the german station I saw earlyer and I have seen you :-)

Today I have changed the 70 cm eggbeater to the 2 mtr version but was to late to see NO-84 today some days I have to be at work :-)
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I only checked the last 2 ISS passes over last 2 days and not heard it at all with the Omni. Maybe other satgate stations are using the same and why Europe is more quiet as most activity appears to be USA. Don't really want to go down the path again of putting up more rotating beams etc. until the replacement radio is back online end of 2017 as I only just installed a new 2m ground plane antenna a couple of weeks ago..
Heard PSAT-1 still packet beaconing this morning whilst switched off.

20161108102300 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAR,G7HCE-10:s#024690,0z001
20161108102259 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAR,G7HCE-10:T#615,823,071,859,491,669,00011100
20161108102158 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAR,G7HCE-10:T#614,825,086,859,492,669,00011100
20161108102157 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAR,G7HCE-10:s#024689,0z001

Yes it was sad about MIR's demise.
Good luck on your proposed 15 deg horizontal beam should be a good improvement with better results .

Sounds like a good improvement with your new Icom. NO-84 APRS has been off for a while now last time I worked it with TH-D72 HT 5 watts into 2m 5/8 wave telescopic antenna whilst walking. Not looked at the PSK31 yet.
I tried the UISS satgate addon but prefer to use APRSISS32 with UISS as more functions and better map and works fine with both TS-2000 and TH-D72 (aprs mode)
Never worked MIR.
I started with the 1200 bpsk sats then mostly worked the store and forward bbs 9k6 LEO sats KITSAT KO-23/KO-25 +UO-22 + POSAT PO-28 using LL.Grace DSP-12 TNC (still got it) + KCT Tuner Tracker + Yaesu FT-847 + Yaesu G500B EL/Rotator + Tonna 144 Mhz and 430 Mhz X-Yagis RHC + Icom Masthead Preamps + PB/PG and Wisp Software running 24/7 fully automated. Those were the days.!!
Everything today is pc soundcard and transceiver for me now.

Back in the early 90's when I use to run a fully automated satellite tracking station working all the 1k2 and 9k6 LEO Sats using Tonna X-Yagis RHC + Icom Preamps others were getting good results with Eggbeaters stateside. Hope the IC-2300H is an improvement for you.
437.550 is not good using my Omni at this time. It will interesting to see what output power they use on Kenwood DM710GA replacement late 2017. Hope it's more than the 5 watts minimum power setting.

Yes there are holes in satgate net on both bands. Sometimes stations can be digipeated several times before it gets routed and I have been digipeated several times by the ISS and PSAT even during a single pass and haven't been gated especially when mobile. It can depend on the gateways they are using during their setup and whether there are packet collisions when transmitting whilst receiving etc.

Not likely to return to 145.825 until late 2017 looking at the reports with new Kenwood DM710GA. The radio needs 13.8 VDC, the ISS provides 120 VDC in the US segment and 28 VDC in the Russian segment. The power supply will allow ham radio equipment to be used anywhere on ISS.
437.550 not ideal without some sort of pointing antenna but at least it's operational for the time being.