I send few days ago an e-mail to Radio Club Station
of Algeria to listen 145.800 and to tell to 7X ham
to make a contact with ISS to help Bill to achieve is DXCCC.

Can anyone know if Bill contact a 7X station send
me a mail to f0dei@wanadoo.fr

73, Toufik F0DEI

This weekend (Jan 14-15 UTC) Bill McArthur plans to operate on the UHF band exclusively. It is his desire to work all continents on the UHF band from the International Space Station.

Thanks to our fellow member Cor PD0RKC from the Netherlands, Bill was able to work few hours ago a new one: 9W2QC Sion from Malaysia!
Cor warned Sion in realtime about the incoming pass and the result was a beautiful voice QSO.
Congratulations!

I just heard Bill as the ISS came up over the northern horizon. He worked PA0JMV, IZ7EVR, RU6JW and 4L8A in Europe, and then I had a short QSO with him. After me he worked HZ1AM and 7Z1SJ. He seems to be enjoying Ham Radio!
The rig here is a Kenwood TS-790A - 50 W into a vertical collinear antenna.
73, Shlomo, 4X4LF

Posted by UR4MCK (links are ok now):

Space Patrol during 25, 26 Dec. passes over Ukraine (KN98PO) is available from :
http://daemon.co.ua/iss-audio/iss-25-12-05.mp3
http://daemon.co.ua/iss-audio/iss-26-12-05.mp3

73! de UR4MCK

Hello All,

There are several software programs which can
tell you the ISS doppler frequencies, even
without an rig controlled (CAT) transceiver!!!!
For example Hamradio De Luxe (freeware).
Download Hamradio De Luxe (7,5mb).
http://hrd.ham-radio.ch/downloads.html
Download HRD v3.2

Hello all,
during the first ISS voice repeater after its reactivation in occasion of the Russian Space Patrol event, I had the pleasure to contact TA3EL Ali.
It was a good occasion to verify how sensitive the repeater modulation is. In facts, I had to lower the modulation to less than the half of the level that I normally use for other satellite operations.
Also remember that many are willing to try so once you had the contact please leave space for the others.

During normal voice operations I see that many stations use to call after the Astronaut replied to someone else, interrupting their QSO.
This is of course very bad habit denoting poor ham spirit. Those "alligators" will now have to think twice before they choose to eat another QSO because they will have to do it in front of everyone else.

In UHF doppler correction is a must so get ready to learn more about it if you still havent...
I wish everyone good luck with the ISS repeater!
Alain

Hello,

I had QSO with Bill on 26 December 2005 evening pass over India. It was my first contact on voice with the ISS and Bill. Bill told me that I am his first VU contact :-)

73
Nitin
VU3TYG

I just worked Bill, NA1SS, during the station's pass over Israel (1637-1640 UTC). Signals were 59 both ways, and Bill told me I was his first Israeli contact.
73, Shlomo 4X4LF

News received from Kenneth N5VHO:
As part of the Space Patrol special event activities, the Russians have submitted a request to place the Kenwood radio into repeater mode beginning some time on Dec 27 and operating until 0912 UTC on Dec 31 when Exp 12 Commander Bill McArthur will be speaking to Boy Scouts in Thailand.