Hello All,

I just heard Bill Mc Athur calling CQ on Europe (03-11-2005).
Congrats to: M0DTS and IZ7EVR.
I was not good prepared for voice operation this pass so I did not make a contact.
You can hear my recording on
http://pd0rkc.ontwikkel.nl/ISSAUDIO/iss031105.mp3

To all: DO NOT FORGET TO POST VOICE REPORTS!!!

73's Cor PD0RKC
http://www.flaps40.net/pd0rkc

IN LAST SATURDAY I MADE A VOICE CONTACT WITH WILLIAN MCARTHUR ONBOARD INTERNACIONAL SPACE STATION.
HE TALK WITH A LOT HAM'S OVER SOUTH AMERICA.

WILLIAM SAID: CQ CQ THIS IS NA1SS.
I SAID: HELLO MR. MACARTHUR I'M PY4MAB DID YOU HEAR ME ?
HE SAID: YES PY4MAB I HEAR LOUD AND CLEAR
I SAID: WHAT YOU SAD ABOUT SPACE, HOW DO YOU FELL ONBOARD ISS ?
HE SAID ALL ABOUT SPACE AND INTERNACIONAL SPACE STATION.
I THINK WITH EXPEDITION 12 WE GOT GREAT CONTACTS OVER SOUTH AMERICA.

MAURICIO BERALDO PY4MAB
BRAZIL

October 22 17:42 and 22:10 UTC my first voice contact with ISS commander Mc Arthur. My dream was to be astronaut, I only succeed in being civil pilot and sport parachutist, I now write stories of the space and fiction and I through the radius am a little since astronaut feel that I so arrive to the space. this contact was for me how a part of my fulfilled dreams. These contacts was celebrated with a beautiful jump from 10.000ft with three parachutists friends
I'm 63 years old, Thanks ISS for this gift

Good day all,
I had a nice qso with Bill McArthur on Saturday morning and then to my suprise, another this morning @1520. seems like the expedition 12 crew might be pretty active on ham radio during the next 6 months, so get all your toys lined up and ready to go. This morning we talked about the daily timeline and I asked Bill to check the TNC on the kenwood system and give it a re-boot or a re-power since it has not worked since our last voice contact. After that, we signed and i heard him working KB0ZUU for a minute and then the packet system came back on.
Its going to be a fun winter for ISS fans so get ready.
73, Ron - N7SIJ

Nothing heard on 145.800 on Oct 8, 2005 16:40 utc.

I am located in Northeastern Connecticut, USA, grid squard fn41br

Dean, N1SXL

Hello All,

First I want to thank all people who have cooperated on the Happy Birthday Sergey CD!
The happy birthday Sergey event was at 27-august-2005, Sergey was active that day to thank the amateurs for the congratulations.
I have posted the CD today to Kenneth (N5VHO) and he will do every attempt to give it to Sergey when Sergey comes back on earth.
I have designed a nice CD with covers!
I've added the ISSFANCLUB logo and ISSFANCLUB URL on the CD, so I hope Sergey gives (and visit) a comment in the ISSFANCLUB!
Inside the CD are audio recordings (from the birthday event), pictures and comments.
At this link you can see the covers: CD Cover
You can not see the pictures, and comments of the operators cause I want to keep the personal comments (and pics) private.

73's Cor PD0RKC

Another great sighting of the ISS last night over Kentucky. We are suppose to have another one tonight, so it dont get any better. Get all the people you know together and enjoy. for all those scanner land people. 145.800 you never know what you might here proably mostly packet burst, but you may get lucky and hear one of the crew talking. For more info on the sightings times I suggest downloading Satscape...its a freebie..... another great free program is UISS if you have this a cable to run from the sound on your scanner to the line in on your computer your all set to start copying those strange noises on the frequency above. good luck and happy hunting

73's
KD4PQF

Hello All,

Every APRS station wich have internet should become an IGATE station!!!
I have made an easy manual to make your APRS station also a IGATE station!
First I shall explain what an IGATE station is. APRS stations send their beacons on the air, the IGATE station receive the beacons and send it to internet.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/ariss/index.cgi

From Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO:
On Thursday September 8 at 13:08 UTC, Progress 19P lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Included in the 2.5 tons of fuel, food and supplies are two Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) systems---the Suitsat amateur radio hardware and the Slow Scan
Television (SSTV) hardware and software.
The successful docking of Progress to ISS on September 10 culminates the successful design, development, certification and delivery of these two ARISS Projects. The ISS Expedition 11 crew will unpack this equipment, making it available for installation, use and deployment by the Expedition 12 crew.

The PCSAT2 side-A system has been operated for 4 weeks in PSK-31 mode, and will now be changed from PSK-31 mode to UI/APRS Packet digipeater mode. See:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pec/pc2ops.html

In this mode, the uplink is 145.825 and downlink is 435.275 +/- 10 kHz doppler to avoid any interference with the 145.800 ARISS operations. The system is 1200 baud with the callsign of PCSAT2 and alias of ARISS, so the same setting as you use for normal ARISS packet, should work here too if you use the ARISS alias.

Again, refer to the PCSAT2 operations page and the User Service Agreement for this mode. Specifically, unattended beacons are not authorized. The digipeater is for human communications, not blind beacons. See:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pec/useragreemt.txt

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