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

Sat Nov 18 22:50:37 EST 2023

yes. it was. so cool Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: ERNEST KRAUS via GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net> Date: 11/18/23  9:41 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: Jon Pearce <jonathanwpearce at outlook.com>, Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com>, Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> Cc: GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm! about the same brightness as Venus which was east of it. Pretty remarkable how much space it cover in such a short time. It looked like Mars south and east of it. It has a red appearance east of it.________________________________From: gcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <gcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Jon Pearce <jonathanwpearce at outlook.com>Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2023 9:09 PMTo: Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com>; Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com>Cc: GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net>Subject: Re: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm!Probably not the tool bag - you’d have needed binoculars. But thanks to Jim for pointing out another great activity for the GCARC.At the clubhouse early this morning Greg W5DO and I made 11 meteor scatter contacts using the Flex 3000, the Elecraft amp running about 1200 watts and the 6 meter beam. Another shower is coming in early December that may be easier to work (peaking around 11 PM instead of 3 AM!) and we’ll be checking it out too.https://www.space.com/international-space-station-spacewalk-lost-tool-bag-photo73 de Jon WB2MNFGet Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>________________________________From: gcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <gcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com>Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2023 6:30:07 PMTo: Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com>Cc: GCARC <gcarc at mailman.qth.net>Subject: Re: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm!That was a good pass!  I saw another smaller object pass overhead a minuteor two ahead of the ISS.  Any guesses on what it was? Could it have been...the missing tool bag ???DE K3TSOn Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:33 PM Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> wrote:> 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> ______________________________________________________________> GCARC mailing list> Home: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman.qth.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgcarc&data=05%7C01%7C%7C66485b84f83a4a6cb31a08dbe88e5dcd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638359470388017763%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3VDA%2BrR0vuJ5%2FVA9FVI0E%2BXX5ReCtJ0%2BAU6SnYyIQLE%3D&reserved=0<http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/gcarc>> Help: 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