Hi Bob,
Yeah, Keps for the ISS have been really short lived recently. I updated mine on Friday, and I think again yesterday, and by last night when I updated them again, things moved out another 20 minutes. I think someone forgot to turn off one of their thrusters...
I tuned in for their 6pm (local PDT) pass, and heard nothing on 145.800 nor 145.825. I stayed up last night to catch the 12:40am pass, and again nothing (though I only stayed around for the first half of the pass). Nothing has been posted on David's OSCAR database related to hearing the crew either.
Their next pass here is after Field Day closes, so I'll have to look forward to next year. But I did make contacts on AO-51, AO-7, and FO-29, and a partial on AO-27 to Hawaii, so it still was a good day.
Greg KO6TH
Bob Bruninga wrote:
I got APRS satellite packets via ISS but not while I was looking.
My KEPS were 2.5 days old and I heard nothing during my "predicted" passes, though looking at the APRS radio later, I did see RS0ISS and 3 other stations. Maybe they re-boosted.
I did think I heard voices from that radio once or twice but assumed it was QRM from nearby public 2-way radios (I was surrounded by the Race Across America Bike tour people who all had VHF radios of some kind or other). Now I realize it might have been an astronaut on ISS? But since it didn't match my prediction, I wasn't paying attention.
Bob, WB4APR
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