[HiDARG-MEMBERS] ISS Tracking App - Recommendations?

[KI7UNJ Tucker]

Wednesday lunch is hard for me due to work but I will work with max and try
for a Thursday night meeting or some other joint time.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 7:27 PM Mike Darling <themikedarling at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just the idea of Macgyvering some PVC and a other random pieces from the
> garage such as hose clamps and tape measure, and using it and a low power
> ham radio to send a signal into space a 1,000 miles up, and having it send
> a signal right back to me... is just plain awesome...
>
> Heard this on ARRL's podcast "So Now What?" and now that our club is
> building the tape measure antennas, just gotta do this...
>
> Casey, much interested.... and definitely a show and tell at a Wednesday
> lunch would be great.
>
> Mike
> KF7GND
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:39 PM KI7UNJ Tucker <ki7unj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 100% agree Voice contacts with ISS are rare (still waiting for mine), we
>> had an astronaut up there last year that would jump on the gear on
>> Saturdays pretty regularly. That has now stopped as she has left.
>>
>> You can, however, listen to the downlink of school contacts if in range,
>> but don't bother trying to uplink as they change the uplink randomly and
>> its a secret to only those who need to know.
>>
>>
>> As for working the other sats, either voice or APRS it's actually very
>> easy, and I could have you working the birds in a single afternoon. Minimal
>> gear is required to do it, but some gear is more designed for the
>> operations.
>>
>> If anyone would like to start working the FM birds, I'm more then willing
>> to do a demo or help you get started!
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>> KI7UNJ
>> https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:26 PM Jeff Moore <tnetcenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's very difficult to make voice contact with the ISS!  Not because of
>>> the distances, but because of the astronaut's schedules and workloads.
>>> Most astronauts won't bother with any voice contacts other than scheduled
>>> school contacts.
>>>
>>> The best I've been able to do was bouncing APRS packets off the ISS as
>>> it is overhead.
>>>
>>> Most any satellite tracking app will work for you to track the ISS.
>>>
>>> I'm not currently using any apps on my phone for that purpose.  Working
>>> passes with anything requires planning, so I use PC based apps for that so
>>> that I can print out the sat pass schedule on paper.  Others methods vary
>>> and I'll let the more active sat users comment on what works for them.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> 7   3
>>> Jeff Moore  --  KE7ACY
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:02 PM Mike Darling <themikedarling at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now that we're going to make a tape measure Yagi antenna, would love to
>>>> use it to try to interact with the ISS as it pops up over the horizon... I
>>>> know I know, it is long ways away.... but still fun to try :-)
>>>>
>>>> I've signed up for alerts to my email/phone from NASA (Spot the
>>>> Station) on my computer, but I would like to install an app on my Android
>>>> phone.
>>>>
>>>> Any recommendations for Android ISS tracking apps, especially showing
>>>> graphic tracks?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Mike D.
>>>> KF7GND
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> HiDARG-Members mailing list
>>>> HiDARG-Members at hidarg.org
>>>> http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> HiDARG-Members mailing list
>>> HiDARG-Members at hidarg.org
>>> http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Casey Tucker  KI7UNJ
>> https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ
>> https://www.qrz.com/db/KI7UNJ
>> http://bit.do/ki7unj
>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.do/ki7unj&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1521073499558000&usg=AFQjCNFcQLn6C9nmmvpQiBbD6XvN-QjKug>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> HiDARG-Members mailing list
>> HiDARG-Members at hidarg.org
>> http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org
>>
> _______________________________________________
> HiDARG-Members mailing list
> HiDARG-Members at hidarg.org
> http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org
>
-- 


Casey Tucker  KI7UNJ
https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ
https://www.qrz.com/db/KI7UNJ
http://bit.do/ki7unj
<https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.do/ki7unj&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1521073499558000&usg=AFQjCNFcQLn6C9nmmvpQiBbD6XvN-QjKug>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://hidarg.org/pipermail/hidarg-members_hidarg.org/attachments/20190724/ed34d319/attachment-0003.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 2965544 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://hidarg.org/pipermail/hidarg-members_hidarg.org/attachments/20190724/ed34d319/attachment-0003.png>