Hey all, thanks to a nice email from Patrick Stoddard and the others, and actually reading the manual way past my bed time, I managed to digipeat through the ISS this morning. I actually planned on just RXing to be safe but while my screen showed the info of a station repeatedly beaconing I clicked a random button on my radio to clear the display and it happened to be my beacon button! it was quickly digipeated back by RS0ISS. I can see it on ariss.net now.
20150908100716 : KG4AKV-5]3U4U5Y,RS0ISS*,qAR,W0JW-6:'jGX K]My 1st time digipeating thru the ISS! FM05=
Very cool! Now to get a QSO. I might have to get a friend to track and hold the antenna while I type very slowly T9word style like on the old cell phones.
73, John, KG4AKV
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Steve Kristoff skristof@etczone.net wrote:
I was under the impression that we were voluntarily not digipeating through NO-44 due to the problem it causes over Great Britain, switching over to the North American terrestrial APRS frequency under certain conditions. GB and Europe don't use the same terrestrial APRS frequency so the satellite causes interference with other two meter operations. Has that changed?
Steve AI9IN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stoetzer" n8hm@arrl.net To: "Rick Tejera" saguaroastro@cox.net Cc: "AMSAT BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] TH-D72A through ISS digipeater?
Just a slight correction - the frequency is 145.825. W3ADO-1 is necessary for NO-44 in it's current condition, but NO-84 should respond to ARISS, PSAT, or APRSAT when the digipeater is on.
73,
Paul, N8HM
Steve Kristoff skristof@etczone.com
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