Category Archives: ARISS

ARISS Contact to be Friday May 6

Posted on April 27, 2016 by robert

The ARISS and NASA organizations have just announced that the All Saints Academy contact with the International Space Station will take place on Friday May 6th. Our orbit will be a descending one, beginning at approximately 12:44 PM local time and … Continue reading →

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ARISS Practice Going Well

Posted on April 24, 2016 by robert

As of yesterday, the RF Team from NCRC has had 3 ARISS practice sessions, where we use the Packet Robot RS0ISS to check out the RF uplink/downlink and antenna tracking gear. Usually at home I use M2 Eggbeater antennas, and … Continue reading →

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QSL for RS0ISS Packet Arrives

Posted on April 18, 2016 by robert

I received a QSL via the ARRL for the packet activity through the ISS Packet Robot, RS0ISS on April 4th.  

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ISS SSTV Reception

Posted on April 13, 2016 by robert

Always looking for a new way to practice for our upcoming ARISS contact the first week of May, I setup the MMSSTV program to decode the SSTV signal being sent from ISS on 145.800 MHz.  The signal is sent using … Continue reading →

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Successful Digipeat from ISS

Posted on April 4, 2016 by robert

As our ARISS contact is 30 days away, so it is time for lots of practice.  While not at All Saints yet, I am using my IC-9100 with egg-beaters to monitor the ISS Packet Robot on 145.825 +/- Doppler.  Packets … Continue reading →

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ISS-Above on 7″ LCD

Posted on March 27, 2016 by robert

I finally had a chance to tie the Raspberry Pi Foundation 7″ LCD/Touchscreen onto a RPi 2 running the ISS-Above firmware.  The results were outstanding.  It makes for a nice desk piece, with only a single power supply wire exiting … Continue reading →

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ISS-Above: Coolest Tool for ISS Pass Prediction – EVER

Posted on March 26, 2016 by robert

While looking for interesting things to display concerning the ISS during our upcoming ARISS contact, I stumbled across a now commercial product that started not long ago as an overfunded Kickstarter campaign. ISS-Above. ISS-Above is a Raspberry Pi based product with … Continue reading →

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Yaesu G5500 Rotor to Green Heron Az/El Controller

Posted on October 29, 2015 by robert

The Primary Station for the N1ASA ARISS contact, happening sometime in the spring of 2016, uses a Yaesu G-5500 Az/El Rotor and a Green Heron RT-21azel Az/El Controller. While Green Heron supplies fine documentation including the pinouts of both devices, … Continue reading →

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ARISS Contact: One Step Closer

Posted on July 21, 2015 by robert

I am one member on a team of folks who have had our initial proposal for an ARISS contact sometime between Jan and June of 2016.  The initial “marketing” proposal was accepted.  The next step in the process is to … Continue reading →

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