Any info on whether the ISS APRS digi is active? And is there a solid current source of that info? I have found some sites with general info, but due to activities on the ISS, they seem to make changes with fair frequency. I have a newbie who is anxiously listening on each pass, but so far nothing hear.
Alan WA4SCA
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http://www.ariss.net/ will tell you the last time it was accessed and also give an indication of relative location in it's orbit...
If it hasn't been on in the last 2 hours, it's probably not on...
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@UNITED.NET To: "AMSAT-BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 8:36 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS digi active?
Any info on whether the ISS APRS digi is active? And is there a solid current source of that info? I have found some sites with general info,
but
due to activities on the ISS, they seem to make changes with fair
frequency.
I have a newbie who is anxiously listening on each pass, but so far
nothing
hear.
Alan WA4SCA
Hi Alan,
I have a newbie who is anxiously listening on each pass, but so far
nothing
I monitor ISS digi activity on http://www.ariss.net/. If you scroll down to the bottom where it displays the packet log it also has a time stamp of how long since that packet was received.
Under "Recent Activity" it shows ... 02:11:21:42 : LU8YY-3]BEACON,RS0ISS-4*,W3ADO-1,qAO ... etc. Meaning ISS digi was last heard about 2 days and 11 hours ago.
When ISS is active the time stamps of the recent activity are much closer to current time. Its one way to get a feel if it will be worth listening.
PCSAT can still be occasionally worked on 145.825 MHz also if you want to test out your setup. Just set UNPROTO CQ VIA W3ADO-1 for PCSAT and UNPROTO CQ VIA ARISS for ISS.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
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