On the Yuri Gagarin anniversary day, I listened for the FM voice beacon from the ARISS-1 satellite on the space shuttle. Nothing heard here. But I was listening near the end of the period scheduled for the transmission, so I may have missed it, or the batteries may have drained.
But this morning I finally got confirmation that at least one of my packets made it through the Space Station's digipeater. The image above is from the "Stations Heard via ISS" web site. Obviously I need to do something to the position (Lat/Long) info in my packet so that I can show up on the APRS maps. Perhaps my symbol should be the SolderSmoke logo...
5000km+ TEP opening on the 432 MHz band in the Indian Ocean - 23rd Apr 2024
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Back on the 8th of April 2024, I reported on the very first
Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) opening on the 144 MHz band from UAE to
Reunion Island in...
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Don't feel bad, *no one* heard it. Also it sounds like the folks at Roscosmos are proving to be a little bit of a headache for AMSAT...
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Mike
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