Good explanation Jonathan, My experience has been to listen to the downlink frequencies when there is a pass over our area. The majority of the time the ISS packet station is operating. See http://www.ariss.net/ If the time is during the off-duty window mentioned previously, I alternately listen to the voice downlink frequency for a signal. I haven't made a contact with them since they went back to the Ericsson radio which is only an HT. Hope that helps
Scott , nt5sm > On May 9, 2016, at 10:40, Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5/7/2016 4:27 PM, Dwayne Jones via BVARC wrote: >> Anyone know if the astronauts still talk on the ham radio that is on the >> International Space Station? Just for fun I would like to try to talk to >> them. I have done it once. >> >> Dwayne >> KB5YTA > > I've been kind of waiting for someone to show up with specific knowledge of > the operations. The ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) > is controlled in Houston, and so there is local knowledge about how much of > that goes on. Failing to hear from someone who actually knows, here is my > understanding: ARISS schedules contacts with schools. If you're not helping > one of those schools set up their equipment for a schedule, you're not going > to be able to guarantee a contact because whether or not an astronaut uses > the ARISS radios to make contacts during their own time depends on how much > interest the individual astronaut has in making contacts. Some have a lot of > interest, some don't have much interest at all. If you're interested in > making Q's with the ISS, you'll need to figure out when that works. The > astronauts on the ISS are on UTC, and they have personal time an hour or so > after waking and an hour or so before going to sleep, with more time on the > weekends. So, if you've got an ISS pass between 0600-0700Z or 2100Z-2200Z > you might give a listen on the published frequencies. They are making > contacts with schools, but my understanding they were mostly doing British > Commonwealth schools because Timothy Peake (an English astronaut) is > currently aboard. That's the impression I got from my Twitter feed, anyway. > > Here's a Web page with more information about ARISS: > http://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html > > -- > Jonathan Guthrie KA8KPN > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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