Greetings all.

Orbitron showed NO-84 passing directly overhead here in Virginia tonight, so against all odds I stuck the 5/8 mag. mount antenna parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the predicted track.

I'm hesitant to bore the group but thought it was noteworthy that even with such a modest setup, I received a couple of packets (one with data; one incomplete). In fact, believe it or not, I had an FT-60 handheld laying on the coffee table that also broke squelch when I saw the two incoming packets on the computer screen via my Icom-28A. I thought that was pretty amazing as well, considering the low-power source.

Here are the received packets: (timestamps are UTC on 8-July-2015)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fm K0KOC-7 To APWW10 Via PSAT,ARISS* <UI pid=F0 Len=45 >[04:31:27] @043126h3923.18N/07724.92WlAPRS-IS for Win32

Fm W9QO To STPX1V Via PSAT,ARISS*,SGATE,WIDE2-2 <UI pid=F0 Len=11

[04:31:37]

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73, -Scott, K4KDR Montpelier, VA USA