G3PYE/P working NA1SS - Sept 2010

This video shows how easy it is to work the ISS (international space station). After setting up for the 2010 144MHz Trophy ham radio contest we had a free evening to play radio, sit about the fire and have a few beers. We seen a visual ISS pass earlier in the evening and put a radio onto 144.8MHz to monitor the frequency used by the ISS to talk to ham radio operators, 2 passes later we heard them calling CQ so we called back!

Some pictures of the weekends even are on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/camb-hams/pool/tags/sept2010/

Information about ham radio in the UK and how to get started: http://www.rsgb.org/ and in the USA: http://www.arrl.org/

Information on the ISS and ham radio: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/

This video was uploaded from an Android phone.

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• radio
• iss
• portable
• cambhams
• crg

[M0VFC]

@FUNNYTOM10

Hi Thomas! I believe the QSO you saw there was using a 17-ele beam, as the angle of elevation was very low (the pass only just came above the horizon). However, we initially heard it just on a hand-held antenna!

I can't remember if they were working split or not at that point, but I seem to remember it was just simplex (frequency above should have been 145.800, by the way, not 144.800).

73,

Rob, M0VFC (team G3PYE/P)

[FUNNYTOM10]

What antenna was used for that? did you use different uplink/downlink freq?

73s, Thomas OE3TWB