ARISS school contact tomorrow (April 21)

[Richard O'Neill]

Hi Terry,

  Curious to know if I could hear the ISS I took up position in the 
front yard and listened during the ten minute window using a Baofeng 
UV-5R and a Yaesu FT-411. The UV-5R had a 19" whip and the FT-411 a 4" 
stubby antenna. Surprisingly, it was fairly easy to copy downlink 
transmissions for over two minutes around max elevation with the stubby 
antenna pointed along the expected orbital track. The only signal heard 
from the UV-5R was a change in background noise during ISS transmissions.

Richard

On 4/20/2014 8:22 AM, 3t3 wrote:
> Hello -
>
> If you have 2 mtr capability you might be interested to know that 
> there will be another Amateur Radio on the International Space Station 
> (ARISS) school contact over our area tomorrow, Monday, April 21.  It 
> will be a direct contact with the Dixon Elementary School in Holly 
> Ridge, North Carolina (NC4OC).
>
> It will be an ascending pass (southwest to northeast), peaking in the 
> southeast, and the times for both you and the school are shown below.
>
>            Northern VA
>         TIME (UTC)   AZ/EL
>  Rise:   18:09:12   205/0
>  Peak:   18:14:19   133/27
>  Set:    18:19:32    61/0
>
>               NC4OC
>         TIME (UTC)   AZ/EL
>  Rise:   18:08:11   213/0
>  Peak:   18:13:30   133/44
>  Set:    18:18:54    54/0
>
> So listen in on the downlink at 145.80 MHz then if you can.  The 
> astronaut at the mic will be Koichi Wakata.
>
>
>         --   73 de
>         Terry McCarty
>
> 3t3 at comcast.net
> wa5nti
>
>
>
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