On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Greg D <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Yeah, Keps for the ISS have been really short lived recently. I updated mine > on Friday, and I think again yesterday, and by last night when I updated > them again, things moved out another 20 minutes. I think someone forgot to > turn off one of their thrusters... > > I tuned in for their 6pm (local PDT) pass, and heard nothing on 145.800 nor > 145.825. I stayed up last night to catch the 12:40am pass, and again nothing > (though I only stayed around for the first half of the pass). Nothing has > been posted on David's OSCAR database related to hearing the crew either. > > Their next pass here is after Field Day closes, so I'll have to look forward > to next year. But I did make contacts on AO-51, AO-7, and FO-29, and a > partial on AO-27 to Hawaii, so it still was a good day. > > Greg KO6TH > > > Bob Bruninga wrote: >> >> I got APRS satellite packets via ISS but not while I was looking. >> >> My KEPS were 2.5 days old and I heard nothing during my "predicted" >> passes, >> though looking at the APRS radio later, I did see RS0ISS and 3 other >> stations. Maybe they re-boosted. >> >> I did think I heard voices from that radio once or twice but assumed it >> was >> QRM from nearby public 2-way radios (I was surrounded by the Race Across >> America Bike tour people who all had VHF radios of some kind or other). >> Now >> I realize it might have been an astronaut on ISS? But since it didn't >> match >> my prediction, I wasn't paying attention. >> >> Bob, WB4APR >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> aprssig mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig >> > > _______________________________________________ > aprssig mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig >
I am pretty sure the ISS got reboosted somewhere yesterday afternoon EDT or the Keps across the whole web were off. I have been tracking it non-stop with the slim hope of making a voice contact. When I updated my TLEs this morning, the ISS pass predictions were *really* off like a reboost happened. Also as Bob stated, when I went outside yesterday to listen for voice, I heard nada. But what was weird is APRS-IS was showing packets in Canada when all the usual suspects showed the ISS over France! :-( -aps (KC2ZSX) _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
