[GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm!

[Jim n2gxj]

Hey, if meteor bounce off the Leonids didn't give you a chance to look up,
here is another!
If clear skies tonight (and is looking good for that), there is a visible
pass of the ISS tonight.
Should be able to just go outside, face SW, and a bright dot will rise up
from the horizon around 5:38, a couple minutes later will be passing near
straight overhead at 5:40, and then it will set, disappearing into the
Earth's shaddow in the NE a couple of minutes after that.
It should be a very bright dot and easy to see tonight (.-3.8 for you
amateur astronomers out there)
Oh, and if you have an FM ham radio, turn your antenna horizontal (parallel
to the ground and sideways to the visible pass) and tune to 437.8 Mhz FM
(Tune a little higher in frequency on the dot's way up, a little lower on
the dot's way down), with the squelch set to 0 (turn off squelch).
On 437.8 Mhz, when the ISS is overhead you might just hear some chatter on
the cross band repeater.  For bonus, if you have two radios, transmit on
the second radio on 145.99 Mhz FM with a PL tone of 67 to try and make a
contact with someone, while seeing if can hear your own voice on receive
radio you have tuned to 437.8.
Good luck!
Jim