Digipeated APRS Fix via the ISS

November 19, 2007 | Amateur Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

I looked at oscar.dcarr.org, and noted that the ISS packet radio feed appeared to be back up. We had a 15 degree pass to the west (the most favorable direction, toward the east I have a S5 noise source), so I went out and waved my antenna around, and got the following packets digipeated:

From findu.com:

KF6KYI-1>37UXPW,RS0ISS-4*,qAo,WA6LIE-4:'2+9l -/>kf6kyi@gmail.com
KF6KYI-1>37UXPW,RS0ISS-4*,qAo,WA6LIE-4:'2+9l -/>kf6kyi@gmail.com
KF6KYI-1>37UXPW,RS0ISS-4*,qAo,WA6LIE-4:'2+9l -/>kf6kyi@gmail.com

Nifty! I might leave it beaconing more today to see how I can do it just using my omni on the car.