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

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:

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