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

[Mike]

I did see it, but did not hear anything coming in on 437.8.

73
Mike Thompson
KG4JYA
Mikeasphere <http://mikeasphere.blogspot.com/>


On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 5:40 PM faith90 <faith90 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
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