[Noisebridge-discuss] International Space Station Flyby: Tuesday 5:29pm. Look up!

[Josh Myer]

Just wanted to inject a quick plug for cq at lists.noisebridge.net, which is
chock full of noisebridge hams.  We're still organizing a bit, but it seems
like that's a good place to coordinate a meetup, net, etc.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Mark Cohen's message of Tue Nov 10 11:03:19 -0800 2009:
> >
> > Lee,
> >
> > Do you know if anyone on the hill will have a radio? Might be a good time
> to
> > get the arrow antenna out and talk to them.
> >
> > Having worked NA1SS a while ago, its a blast.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have my radio here at work, but don't have the antenna
> for sat
> > work here.
>
> It's been several years since I worked NA1SS, but the actual astronauts
> don't operate casually very often last I tried. They tend to setup
> scheduled contacts through ARISS for schools and radio clubs.
>
> I remember that when they weren't operating, they switched the radios
> into a U/V mode repeater (UHF uplink, VHF uplink). I think there's also
> a packet BBS on there.
>
> You may have some luck working other amateurs using it as a
> repeater. I've had several really cool contacts with this mode.
>
> --j
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