An unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp Antares rocket that blasted off from NASA’s Wallops Island launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore January 10, carried aloft an Orbital Sciences Corp (OSC) Cygnus freighter with a bevy of Amateur Radio CubeSats aboard, bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
“We’re in good shape,” Orbital Sciences Executive Vice President Frank Culbertson, ex-KD5OPQ, tol…
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Two astronauts and a cosmonaut returned safely to Earth from International Space Station today. The Expedition 37 crew of European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP; Russian ISS Crew Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg landed in a Soyuz spacecraft in the Kazakhstan steppe, returning in the same spacecraft that took them to the ISS last May.
They carrie…
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Dmitry Pashkov, UB4UAD, reports that the Amateur Radio slow-scan television (SSTV) experiment onboard the International Space Station has been active for the past couple of days on 145.800 MHz FM, mainly while the ISS is above Moscow. UB4UAD says that on October 31, RSØISS will transmit SSTV images showing images from the life and work of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
Stations can view the …
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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is hoping its “Ham Video” digital television transmitter, now stowed onboard the International Space Station (ISS), will be installed and commissioned this fall. US Astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, who heads into space September 25, is scheduled to handle the tasks involved with getting the S Band Ham Video DATV setup on the ai…
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Many hams start with an Arrow or Elk hand-held antenna when using the satellites. A program such as SatPC32 will calculate and display the azimuth and elevat…
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Low-power Handheld Space Station (ISS) Contact Pacific Northwest – CN85om47 International Space Station – Expedition 25 5-Watt HT QRP QSO ISS 10 November 201…
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European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, aboard the International Space Station spoke July 20 via ham radio with Scouts attending the 2013 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, July 15-24, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Mount Hope, West Virginia. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program arranged the 2 meter contact between the Scouts’ K2BSA and NA…
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NASA will televise the launch and docking of its next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning at 3:30 PM EDT on Thursday, March 28 (1930 UTC). NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, and Alexander Misurkin are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:43 PM EDT (2043 UTC). They will join Canadian Space Ag…
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At approximately 9:45 AM EST (1445 UTC) on Tuesday, February 19, the International Space Station (ISS) experienced a loss of communication with the ground. At that time, flight controllers in Houston were updating the software onboard the ISS’s flight computers when one of the ISS’s data relay systems malfunctioned. The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a ba…
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Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, RN3BF, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly have been selected for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. According to NASA, the mission will include collecting scientific data important to future human exploration of our solar system and to understand better how the human body react…
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After spending 125 days in space, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, RN3BS (both of the Russian Federal Space Agency) will begin their voyage home to Earth this weekend, marking the end of Expedition 32 on board the International Space Station (ISS). The trio will undock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft on Sund…
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Space Station QSO – NA1SS by KF7ETX 24JUL10 2305UTC Click the link below to download my ISS / Satellite Track Data Sheet www.box.net 24JUL10 2305 UTC Matt and I made another contact (QSO) with the ISS (International Space Station) amateur radio station NA1SS. We were standing alongside a rural road in just outside of Bend, Oregon using a Yaesu VX-8R handheld and a 2-meter 4-element Arrow Yagi antenna. We are going to try for future QSO attempts with NA1SS. UTC Clock for the MAC – Northern Softworks www.northernsoftworks.com Useful Apple iPhone APPS (iTunes) • GoSatWatch • HamClock UPLINK: 144.490 DOWNLINK: 145.800 ISS Fan Club www.issfanclub.com Col. Douglas Wheelock http ISS Wiki en.wikipedia.org ISS ARRL QSL Card pd0rkc.ontwikkel.nl Arrow Antenna www.arrowantennas.com Yaesu VX-8R www.yaesu.com Created on July 24, 2010 using FlipShare.
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Stylin’ Trucks presents: The Arrow Automotive Antenna, from Double Take Archery
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Cobraworxshopz contacting the International Space Station’s (ISS, ARISS, RS0ISS-4, RS0ISS-11) Amateur Packet Radio Station, transmitting APRS & BBS AX.25 data on 145.825Mhz.
International Space Station Ham Radio cross band repeater allowing Ham stations to make contact with each other via Space. 2E0HTS Ham operator makes contact with fellow Ham DL6MFK.
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Reception of radio signals from the North Texas Balloon Project. The balloon was launched near Hillsboro, Texas, south of the DFW Metroplex. Read more about the project and its sponsors at the following URL: www.ntexbp.org Receiving antennas used: HF – 4 element yagi at 60 feet AGL 2 meter beacon – 3219 yagi at 65 feet AGL 2 meter / 440 MHz cross-band repeater – dual band collinear vertical array at 12 feet AGL NNNN
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Ham and the art of communicating
The Indica is now a 'ham shack'. It holds amateur radio equipment that uses certain frequencies for private, wireless communication. Ravishankar tunes the transceiver and we hear Prakasam from Muthumangalam (Erode) who describes the weather in his town …
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ITN TV News Amateur Radio SSTV Report
Essex radio amateur Jeremy Royle G3NOX/G8ACN is featured in this 1981 TV news report about Voyager II pictures of Saturn that were relayed via colour Slow Scan TV (SSTV). Jeremy was one of the pioneers of colour SSTV and on August 20, 1981, …
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ARISS ham radio contact planned with 'Marconi' High School in Bari, Italy
On Saturday November 12, 2011 at approximately 09.50 UTC, an ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) contact is planned for ISS 'G. Marconi', Bari, Italy. The ISS (High School) "Marconi" was founded in 1940. …
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ARISS ham radio contact planned for children's hospital in Switzerland
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on …
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Space station to Overland High: 'I'm ready to talk to the kids'
Kavya Ganuthula, 12, waits in line to ask astronaut Mike Fossom questions via wireless technology during an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station contact event held Oct. 27 at Overland High School in Aurora. Fossom responded to questions …
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Mercer County seeks radio operators to assist in emergencies
The Mercer County Emergency Management Agency is recruiting amateur radio operators to become a part of the Mercer County Amateur Radio Response Team, which will lend support to the Tri-County Medical Response Corps. The amateur radio group will assist …
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North Texas Balloon Project presents: Texas high altitude balloon flight – This video is a demonstration cross-band repeater downlink on 147.560 MHz. Details on the cross band repeater: Payload: Cross-band Repeater Package Purpose: Short & long-distance amateur-to-amateur radio contacts Summary: Utilize a pair of radios coupled to a miniature repeater controller to allow Amateur Radio licensed operators separated by either short distances (LT 50 miles) or long distances (50-250 miles) to make radio contact through the balloon package Technical Equipment Details: o A pair of Yaesu VX-2R dual-band amateur transceiver – Act together, one as receiver and one as transmitter – Radio power supplied by internal NiMH battery pack – Uplink radio receives on 445.800MHz – Uplink radio modified to provide external Carrier-operated squelch (COS) – Downlink radio transmits on 147.560MHz at ½ watt of output power o A pair of Diamond RH77CA dual-band antennas, one per transceiver o NRHC-micro repeater controller – Provides periodic identification – Controller power supplied by 9VDC alkaline battery More info: www.ntexbp.org http www.edtexas.com (3551, 3552) .
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RX-Down 145.800 fm TX-UP 437.800 fm I managed to get in to the cross band repeater early and worked M0IKB Angus from Scarbourgh E.Yorkshire from Baildon W.Yorkshire via the International space station 300 miles up in space. Lots of other radio hams can also be heard during the ISS pass over my location. I used a Yaesu FT-847, IOIo beam and SATSCAPE. more info at my site via my Youtube Channel. thanks for watching best 73.
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