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

[faith90]

I see it!!!Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: faith90 <faith90 at comcast.net> Date: 11/18/23  5:22 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com>, GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm! wow, thanks.Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> Date: 11/18/23  12:33 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net>, Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> Subject: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm! 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 visiblepass of the ISS tonight.Should be able to just go outside, face SW, and a bright dot will rise upfrom the horizon around 5:38, a couple minutes later will be passing nearstraight overhead at 5:40, and then it will set, disappearing into theEarth'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 youamateur astronomers out there)Oh, and if you have an FM ham radio, turn your antenna horizontal (parallelto 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 onthe 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 onthe cross band repeater.  For bonus, if you have two radios, transmit onthe second radio on 145.99 Mhz FM with a PL tone of 67 to try and make acontact with someone, while seeing if can hear your own voice on receiveradio you have tuned to 437.8.Good luck!Jim______________________________________________________________GCARC mailing listHome: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/gcarcHelp: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htmPost: mailto:GCARC at mailman.qth.netThis list hosted by: http://www.qsl.netPlease help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html______________________________________________________________GCARC mailing listHome: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/gcarcHelp: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htmPost: mailto:GCARC at mailman.qth.netThis list hosted by: http://www.qsl.netPlease help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html