Unbelievable... according to my Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the ISS most certainly IS a satellite! (the only possible quibble being that it was built in orbit, rather than launched into orbit...)
Did the ARRL people understand that you were asking about contacts THRU the ISS, and not WITH the ISS?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@UNITED.NET To: "AMSAT-BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org; "'TAPR APRS Mailing List'" aprssig@lists.tapr.org Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:06 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: APRS through ISS and FD
And the definite answer to the question is NO, the ISS is not a satellite, so it doesn't get you the bonus. I recall its status came up before, and is a bit anomalous. I did suggest a slight modification to the Q&A on the FD package next year to clarify what is not necessarily an intuitive situation. Well, there is GO-32 if you want to do 9600 baud, and there is certainly going to be less traffic.
Alan WA4SCA
-bb