[TheList] ISS Comms

Tue Mar 19 20:41:12 AEDT 2013

I have successfully connected to the packet station on board the ISS..
Packet sent and packet received with welcome message, and sent than lost
the connection..

I was just running on a Diamond X-50 'white stick' antenna - so no fancy
tracking.. 
And I was not taking into the Doppler shift so if I had done that I might
have been on for longer.

>From what I understand most of the traffic is in Russian, and I guess you
need to check their 'sleep cycle' as well as a few other things.
Never heard the HAM channels active, but then again, never have sat on
them either to track it.. 

There are a few really nice websites that give you satellite location
monitoring, 

I used one to get weather data from a weather sat one day - same antenna, 
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4277656732796.2162829.1027567787&type=1&l=3e8115f3da

Just my discovery's - for what its worth...

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:41:49 +1300, "Denis Dawson" <ddawson at xnet.co.nz>
wrote:
> There is a bit of stuff you could hear, try this
> <http://www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php> International
Space
> Station ISS Radio Frequencies
> 
> 
> www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php
> 
> Most of the ISS frequencies listed here are active, It will be obvious
> which
> ones are ... There are occasional communication checks from the ISS with
US
> ground ...
> 
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> 
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> 
>>> but a lot of it is only  when they are over ground stations, mostly in
> Russia.
> 
> Most of their comms is via their TDRS satellites on SHF and wideband
> digital.
> 
>  
> 
> I have heard the 143.625 freq on occasions but not recently, also the
Ham
> repeaters and packet system can be fairly easily heard.
> 
> As you can see from the following there is at times a bit of ham
activity
> from ISS.
> 
> When the astronauts are active on ham frequencies you can work them with
a
> handheld radio if you are lucky ( and have a ham license).
> 
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> 
> A good wideband VHF antenna would be necessary.
> 
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> 
> Denis
> 
>  
> 
> INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) - ARISS
> 
> Catalog number: 25544
> 
> Launch date: November 20, 1998 0640z (ZARYA module)
> 
> Launch sites: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
> 
>               Kourou, French Guiana
> 
>               Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
> 
>               Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, USA
> 
>  
> 
> Status: Operational
> 
>  
> 
> Current Active Modes: FM Repeater - OFF
> 
>                       Voice -       V/v
> 
>                       BBS -         V/v
> 
>                       2m APRS -     V/v
> 
>                       2m Digi -     V/v
> 
>                       70cm APRS -   ?
> 
>                       70cm Digi -   ?
> 
>                       SSTV -        V/v
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Expedition 35 Crew (March 2013 - September 2013):
> 
> Commander:                Chris Hadfield      KC5RNJ/VA3OOG         
> 
> Flight Engineer:          Tom Marshburn       KE5HOC      
> 
> Flight Engineer:          Roman Romanenko
> 
> Flight Engineer:               
> 
> Flight Engineer:          
> 
> Flight Engineer:          
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Available Modes and Frequencies:
> 
> Digital/APRS:
> 
> Worldwide 2m packet uplink:     145.825 MHz FM 1k2
> 
> Worldwide 2m packet downlink:   145.825 Mhz FM 1k2
> 
> Worldwide 70cm packet uplink:   437.550 Mhz FM 1k2
> 
> Worldwide 70cm packet downlink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2
> 
>  
> 
> Voice:
> 
> Region 1 voice uplink:          145.200 MHz FM
> 
> Region 2/3 voice uplink:        144.490 MHz FM
> 
> Worldwide downlink:             145.800 MHz FM
> 
>  
> 
> Crossband Repeater:
> 
> Repeater Uplinks:              1269.650 MHz FM
> 
>                                 437.800 MHz FM
> 
>                                 145.990 MHz FM - 67.0 PL (Kenwood)
> 
> Repeater Downlink:              145.800 MHz FM
> 
>                                 437.800 MHz FM (Kenwood)
> 
>  
> 
> SSTV Robot 36:
> 
> Downlink:                       145.800 MHz FM
> 
>  
> 
> Mode and Antenna Polarization:
> 
> V: Linear
> 
> U: Linear
> 
>  
> 
> Callsigns:
> 
> Belgian:                        OR4ISS
> 
> German:                         DP0ISS
> 
> Russian:                        RS0ISS
> 
>                                 RZ3DZR
> 
> United States:                  NA1SS
> 
> 2m Packet Mailbox:              RS0ISS-11
> 
> 2m Digipeater alias:            ARISS
> 
> 70cm Packet Mailbox:            RS0ISS-1
> 
> 70cm Digipeater callsign:       RS0ISS
> 
> 70cm Digipeater alias:          ARISS
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Official ARISS Webpage:         http://www.rac.ca/ariss
> 
> ISS Fan Club Webpage:           http://www.issfanclub.com
> 
> APRS tracking page:             http://www.ariss.net/
> 
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> 
> From: TheList [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz] On Behalf Of Tim
> Devaney
> Sent: Monday, 18 March 2013 9:23 p.m.
> To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> Subject: [TheList] ISS Comms
> 
>  
> 
> Hello All
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone on the list listened to comms from the International space
> station and if so is it easy to do , can I do it with a scanner and are
> they
> any certain freqs I could listen into . 
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers