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

[Bob Brown]

Very cool.  Tried and failed to get a pic....

On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 5:20 PM faith90 <faith90 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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