Saturday April 4, aprox 15:00 UTC, Charles on was 145.800 during an east coast USA pass. It sound liked he was talking to Goddard in Maryland, no call signs were hear during the 5+ minute conversation. A portion of the conversation was dedicated to battery status of the VC-H1 communicator. I was mobile at the time and did not record the conversation. It seems Charles was concerned about the battery consumption of the VC-H1 and did NOT want to run the VCH1 in automatic mode. I also got the impression that there was not a large supply of used batteries for the VH-H1 (requires 4 AA batteries). Did anyone get a recording of that pass and have a better view of the conversation.

Thanks Miles WF1F www.marexmg.org

--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Glenn AA5PK aa5pk@suddenlink.net wrote:

From: Glenn AA5PK aa5pk@suddenlink.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Charles trying SSTV, but stuck To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 3:10 PM On the last ISS pass, Charles reported the batteries in the VCH1 need replacing.

Congrats to John/K8YSE for snagging him.

73 Glenn AA5PK AMSAT #6694

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