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 are handled by a SCS P4dragon DR-7400 modem. This is pretty much the equal of our backsup station for the ARISS contacts.
I had a fairly decent 30 degree pass from the SSW to the NE, much lower than we will be using on the actual contact day. I was able to copy dozens of packets from RS0ISS, the ISS packet robot, and I was able to copy several of mine go through the robot and come back down. My packets were copied from the robot at:
- 22:13:32 (actual UTC time is 1 min later so 22:14:32)
- 22:14:51
- 22:15:23
- 22:15:51
- 22:16:09
- 22:16:21
- 22:16:37
- 22:17:00
The pass was from 22:09:36 to 22:20:08 UTC, with a 30 degree max. Packets started decoding at 22:14:20 (almost 5 minutes into the pass) and continued to decode until 22:18:00. I have some shadowing due to my house from the SW.
Here is a screen cap that shows the return packet from the Robot (add 1 minute to the time stamp as the DR-7400 TNC clock is exactly 1 minute slow — my outbound packet is shown immediately before the repeated one):
From the next pass (23:45:55 to 23:56:39), as reported by ARISS.NET:
20160404235118 : WB3FKP]CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,VE2GQF-2::WB4SON :Hello to all over the ISS ! wb3fkp@gmail.com
20160404235022 : W8KRF-6]ALL,RS0ISS*,qAR,WB2LMV::WB4SON :UR 59 in Cleveland OH EN91ck 73
20160404235008 : WB4SON]CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,WB2LMV:hi
20160404235001 : W8KRF-6]ALL,RS0ISS*,qAR,KD8THX-6::Heard :AI9IN,WB3FKP,N0AN-6,W4TBD-10,K3DQB,N3FCX,K4IPH,WU2V-1,WB4SON,
20160404234920 : W8KRF-6]ALL,RS0ISS*,qAR,KD8THX-6::Heard :AI9IN,WB3FKP,N0AN-6,W4TBD-10,K3DQB,N3FCX,K4IPH,WU2V-1,WB4SON{UISS54}
20160404234910 : WB4SON]CQ,RS0ISS*,qAR,KD8THX-6:hi
