Radio Scanner event

zespectre · Jan 31, 2006

I know a lot of us also listen to radio scanners so I thought this event might be interesting...

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_30883.shtml

The "suit sat".

GeoScouter · Jan 31, 2006

zespectre said:
I know a lot of us also listen to radio scanners so I thought this event might be interesting...
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_30883.shtml
The "suit sat".

Yea, I'm going to listen for it . I heard the Space Station a few times and a few other satellites.

Steve

redcar · Feb 1, 2006

The ISS and SuitSat will be using the same type of antenna. The ISS puts out 10 watts and the SuitSat will be at .5 watts. So it will be quite a bit weaker. If you have two rigs, tune the other one to 437.80Mhz. The ISS will be retransmitting the SuitSat on that freq if it can pick it up.

At first the SuitSat will appear slightly before the ISS, so set your tracker for ISS and begin listening a few minutes early.

Sorry if you knew all of this already.

I have not talked to an astronaught/cosmonaut, but I have heard them talk to other hams and give school interviews. I am a 'ham' with a packet station and have signed onto the ISS bulletin board, with limited success. I usually use the ISS station as a digi-peater and have worked a dozen or so states, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.

Good luck! Red

InFlux · Feb 1, 2006

redcar said:
The ISS and SuitSat will be using the same type of antenna. The ISS puts out 10 watts and the SuitSat will be at .5 watts. So it will be quite a bit weaker. If you have two rigs, tune the other one to 437.80Mhz. The ISS will be retransmitting the SuitSat on that freq if it can pick it up.

At first the SuitSat will appear slightly before the ISS, so set your tracker for ISS and begin listening a few minutes early.

Sorry if you knew all of this already.

I have not talked to an astronaught/cosmonaut, but I have heard them talk to other hams and give school interviews. I am a 'ham' with a packet station and have signed onto the ISS bulletin board, with limited success. I usually use the ISS station as a digi-peater and have worked a dozen or so states, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.

Good luck! Red

Thanks! All I have are a couple of handheld scanners, so that's good information for me!

fieldops · Feb 1, 2006

Hey Red:

What have the conditions been like when connecting to ISS? I remember the wild collisions when contacting Mir years ago. It was nasty. I use mainly an ICV-8000 for terrestrial packet these days. I like the commercial chassis and 75w. Front end is pretty good too. Good luck with your contacts.

73 Frank WQ1O
CCARES DEC

redcar · Feb 1, 2006

fieldops,

it is quite a chore getting in, especially when someone signs on to the bulletin board. I don't do that anymore. It's hard to get in, read anything and get out in a single pass. I have learned to keep my packets very short and retransmit them 2 or 3 times hoping one will get through without getting truncated. I only have 25 watts and running a vertical, so I do my best when it is 15 to 40 degrees elevation to me.

If you have your 8000 on a vertical or a beam on a rotor, try to sneak a packet in. Its probably the same setup as was on MIR. If you want more info just let me know.

Hope to see you on ISS.

Red

p.s. While SuitSat is in operation, packet and cross band voice repeater will not be in operation on the ISS.

fieldops · Feb 1, 2006

Thanks Red, I'll give that a shot.

73 Frank WQ1O

PoliceScannerMan · Feb 3, 2006

No luck hearing anything yet...

GeoScouter · Feb 3, 2006

No luck here.

Sigman · Feb 3, 2006

I'm trying here and there - no luck either - yet!

PoliceScannerMan · Feb 3, 2006

Its a bust! :ohgeez:

see www.suitsat.org

Its non functional, the biggest antennas (amplified) barley picked it up at first, now its non-functional....

drizzle · Feb 4, 2006

Oh! That's too bad. At least now I won't get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to try to catch it. (That's when the NASA site said the space station will pass over me next.)

redcar · Feb 4, 2006

Looks like it worked for the first couple of orbits, but only very weak.

For most in the US, the first orbit for us will be well after midnight. So no one here would have heard anything yet even if it was working.

Go to www.issfanclub.com to see when the ISS will be over your location. Even if it was working great it would only be over you for 10 minutes at a time. There will be a pass for Eastern Tenn low on the horizon here about 2:30 am. That would be a weak pass even if all was ok. We have another one about 4am that will be almost overhead. Don't forget to monitor the 437.8Mhz FM relay from the ISS. But only when the ISS is over head.

Good luck, and don't hold your breath. Bummer.

Red

Sigman · Feb 4, 2006

Bummer!

Lasernerd · Feb 4, 2006

Nothing with two co-phased yagi`s

zespectre · Feb 5, 2006

Man, I had 3 different scanners tuned with recorders on each one.
Oh well, the anticipation is half the fun.

Lasernerd · Feb 5, 2006

SuitSat has failed!

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