There are a couple of other passes between now and Thursday, but it appears Thursday 6PM will be a beautiful, full viewing again directly overhead. I may or may not be able to get another attempt in at that point.
------------------------------------------------- KJ Anderson 253-380-2636 www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd<http://www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd> From: Michael Giannaccio <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 7:54 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> Cc: KJ Anderson <[email protected]>; Chris Luppens <[email protected]>; Jimmy Vance <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BVARC] ISS Tonight Thanks for these emails. Sure looks like it did make a pass over us. I was actually reading a bunch on this topic today and getting excited to start towards the goal of contacting the ISS. I went outside just to listen and didn’t hear anything. Sincerely, Michael Giannaccio Sent from my iPhone On Nov 15, 2020, at 7:45 PM, KJ Anderson via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I was not successful. LOL I did send on the simplex uplink and got a well-timed squelch break on the downlink simplex frequency, but I certainly can’t call it a contact. Enough to get my wife really interested though, maybe I’ll have more budget for radio stuff now? Who are the AMSAT/ARISS nerds in the group? I want to chat. 73 de KJ5EMP ------------------------------------------------- KJ Anderson 253-380-2636 www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd<http://www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd> From: BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of KJ Anderson via BVARC Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 7:21 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: KJ Anderson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Chris Luppens <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Jimmy Vance <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [BVARC] ISS Tonight The “Heavens-Above” app on my Android phone alerted me, it looks like there’s quite a bit of disparity across the apps. That’s unfortunate. https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/index.php shows the path going right over us in a little bit, currently east of Australia and rising for us, but I can’t get it to give me a time over Houston. http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=25544#<http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=25544> agrees with the transit with a live view and they’re streaming youtube for the SpaceX Dragon Crew-1 Commercial flight as well (been watching for a few hours). https://www.amsat.org/status/ says someone heard them while the crew was active a few days ago, though that’s not necessarily the repeater. I’m going to try both simplex and repeater. I’m pretty sure they’re coming overhead, I just don’t know if the radios will be live. ARISS says they’re shutting the radios off on the 18th for some flight stuff, but otherwise, I have no reason to believe it shouldn’t be a good time tonight. I’m going to head outside. Happy hunting!! ------------------------------------------------- KJ Anderson 253-380-2636 www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd<http://www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd> From: BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Chris Luppens via BVARC Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 7:11 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Chris Luppens <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Jimmy Vance <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [BVARC] ISS Tonight I have no knowledge about repeater status but this is from tracker app I bought. <image001.png> None was shown for tonight. Chris Luppens On Nov 15, 2020, at 7:07 PM, WA5TWT via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: <image0.png> Sent from my iPhone On Nov 15, 2020, at 6:46 PM, Jimmy Vance via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I don't think the repeater is active right now and where did you get your data? I see this on the NASA site for Houston Date Visible Max Height* Appears Disappears Share Event Fri Nov 13, 6:07 AM 3 min 12° 10° above W 10° above SSW <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Fri%20Nov%2013,%206:07%20AM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Sat Nov 14, 5:22 AM 2 min 22° 22° above SSW 10° above S <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Sat%20Nov%2014,%205:22%20AM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Sun Nov 15, 7:33 PM < 1 min 16° 11° above SW 16° above SW <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Sun%20Nov%2015,%207:33%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Mon Nov 16, 6:45 PM 3 min 44° 10° above SSW 44° above SE <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Mon%20Nov%2016,%206:45%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Tue Nov 17, 5:59 PM 4 min 22° 11° above S 14° above E <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Tue%20Nov%2017,%205:59%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Tue Nov 17, 7:36 PM < 1 min 16° 14° above W 16° above WNW <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Tue%20Nov%2017,%207:36%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Wed Nov 18, 6:49 PM 2 min 40° 29° above W 32° above N <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Wed%20Nov%2018,%206:49%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Thu Nov 19, 6:01 PM 5 min 83° 30° above SW 11° above NE <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Thu%20Nov%2019,%206:01%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Fri Nov 20, 6:50 PM 3 min 13° 10° above WNW 11° above NNW <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Fri%20Nov%2020,%206:50%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> Sat Nov 21, 6:03 PM 4 min 22° 18° above WNW 11° above NNE <https://twitter.com/share?url=https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/viewsocial.cfm?country=United_States,region=Texas,city=Houston&text=See%20the%20%23ISS%20over%20Houston%20on%20Sat%20Nov%2021,%206:03%20PM%20%23SpotTheStation%20via%20@NASA> On 11/15/2020 5:53 PM, KJ Anderson via BVARC wrote: The ISS is supposed to fly directly overhead tonight, perfect 90 degrees zenith over Houston at 7:36PM, available for ~3 minutes either side. I’m going to try to hit the repeater on it, now that it’s fixed. If you want to join: Downlink: 437.800 +/- doppler Uplink: 145.990 (67hz PL Tone) http://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/ and of course: https://www.ariss.org/ ------------------------------------------------- KJ Anderson 253-380-2636 www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd<http://www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd> ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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