biglee

im pretty chuffed with that, 2 nights ago i waited for the ISS to come near the uk(followed on satscape) and spoke to those on board,,, downlink is 145.800mhz without doppler and i spoke via 145.200mhz uplink..
i should recive a qsl card from their ground crew sometime..pleased with that one

kosman

what all that mean then?

orionmojo

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I Presume he spoke to an International Space Station (ISS) Crew?

"satscape" and "waited til it came near" were my clues if i'm completly wrong

cabrio zo

I hear Dad talk about 70cm's and 2 metres, means nothing to me except he got a huge antenna in the garden and his call sign

Z

biglee

yea the iss (international space stn) is contactable on 2 meters. wen in range.

kosman

what you do then just have a chat with em? or do they not bother answeirng?

MikeR

hang on we have NASA on the other line

biglee

its just nicetys, hi hows you doin... blah blah.. wer do you wee LOL how do you get your poop to stay in the loo. etc(vacume loos aparently) but they are very busi and do have alot of radio operators calling them.

kosman

nice one,didnt know they could talk to you back,godd question about the turds

Elvis

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lucky benni aint a radio ham, they would have got some abuse

tsutton

To be honest I'm actually surprised NASA allows for this to work!!

dojj

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did you not give it some "breaker breaker, bandit here, i got the metal to the pedal and the foot to the floor"

cool that you spoke to someone all that way away in space who could reply to you

vroooom ptssssh

Thats pretty damn cool !

D16PJM

Its posts like this why i log on every day. had me laughing.

NUTS RuS

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Bet they get a pretty good BBC9's being up there

145.200 use CTCSS ?

biglee

no mate no ctcss needed, its a std repeater 600kc shift but its more of a duplex, talk on 145.200 monitor on 600 above 145.800, good luck, i have it set up in my yeasu mem ch only used 20 watts and spoke to them radio 5 no problem.

**caz**

thats pretty cool

x

cabrio zo

Whats your call sign? Dads is G7HMF FYI

Z

Chip

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Lol, reminds me of the old CB days!


Fucking cool being able to talk to a space station with only 20 watts, I never would have though that possible!

biglee

its all to do with the frequency, cb is at 27mhz which is a lot harder to distance transmit without the aid of say a 300watt linear unless your using ssb when 27mhz ssb you can easly work the world on 100 watts,
145 mhz or 2 meters as its known, goes alot further on less wattage.

biglee

M6 DEP

foreigneRS

10-4 good buddy, you got your ears on, come back?

The Sludge

same as me that!!! My dads call sign is G4 JZF

The Sludge

My dads call sign is G4 JZF. He is/was the WAB Membership secretary (aint seen him for 5 years)

http://www.g4jzf.co.uk/


http://www.qrz.com/db/G4JZF

no idea what it all means, but look at the stuff my dad has become number 1 at

http://wab.intermip.net/NATS%20Award%20Issued.php

oibren85

I work in telecomms so theres hundreds of radio hams in the company. Always going on about it and try to get me into it. Guy called Reg Wolley loves it all he goes on about. All that knowledge but when you mention a YB they all go blank......

JK12

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is cool! nanu nanu!

St3V3_C

I know a bit of stuff, but:

My God. LOL

Its a different world, but pretty cool how far you can talk