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

[A Cerami]

According to my calculations it was a good chance it was the Hubble Space Telescope.  
Anthony Cerami  
N2OAC General Class Amateur Radio Operator

WRPU426 General Mobile Radio Service
What happens under the chassis stays under the chassis.
 

    On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 06:30:39 PM EST, Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 That was a good pass!  I saw another smaller object pass overhead a minute
or two ahead of the ISS.  Any guesses on what it was? Could it have been...
the missing tool bag ???

DE K3TS

On 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
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