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

[Greg Ciraula]

Thanks Jim!  Wow!  That was great to see!  
Wasn’t able to hear anyone or my transmission but the pass was great to watch on such a clear night.
Greg W5DO



On Saturday, November 18, 2023, 5:47 PM, Karl Frank W2KBF via GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

Jim Tnx for the heads up.  Susan W6SKT and I saw it from our deck in Fair
Lawn, NJ.  It was brighter than the planes landing at Newark Airport.
    Karl W2KBF

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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 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
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