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Glenn E. Graf - Operator
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Last reported position of my APRS equipped vehicle |
See a breadcrumb track of my recent positions
See my recent positions superimposed with NEXRAD weather radar
I had my first packet radio contact with the International Space Station on 25 March 2002 exchanging packets via ISS with stations W8IX, KG4QMI, and KA2HZO-3. Since then I have confirmed contacts in several states and many grids. I have worked several other amateur radio satellites such as PCsat/NO-44, UO-14, AO-27 and SO-50. I have been extremely privileged to be able to talk to members of the expedition five, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve crews.
See the latest packet activity with ISS at www.ariss.net
KB1GUE voice contacts with crewmembers on board the International Space Station:
Expedition 12 - I had an additional four contacts with Bill that were not recorded including a QSO from my car while on the way to work
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Expedition 10
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Expedition 9
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Expedition 8
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Expedition 7
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Expedition 5
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Monitored voice contacts with ISS and SpaceShuttle:
It is a rare event to hear the Astronauts and Cosmonauts active on HAM radio, It is even harder to complete a contact. Therefore I have monitored many QSO's of fellow Amateur Radio Operators. Typically I am only able to receive the downlink portion of contact. Here are some of the ISS contacts I have monitored:
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Voyage of W3PM
I made five contacts with 'Whiskey Three Papa Mike' A.K.A Gene during his recent transit of the Atlantic on the liner QE2. These contacts were all made through amateur satellite UO-14 from Eastern Massachusetts in grid FN42. These mid Atlantic grids are understandably pretty rare.
SPECIAL JOINT ISS TEST: On 11 Oct the ISS digipeater QSY'ed from its normal 145.800 frequency to join PCsat on 145.825 for some joint operations tests. The objective was to observe improved joint access periods for users and to see if both satellites could be used as a dual hop double digipeating constellation. The following image from APRStk.exe shows the geometry of the first 5 successes on 12 October over the East coast of the USA.
At 19:54:27 N4ZQ got the first dual hop packet through ISS and then PCsat. Then a minute later as PCsat passed directly overhead of ISS by 420 km, the other 4 successful packets followed over the next minute, ending at 19:57:58. As you can see I was lucky enough to get a packet through via ISS and then PCsat.
Here are some samples of QSOs on satellites AO-27 and UO-14:
UO-14 Contacts:
AO-27 Contacts:
Here are some pictures of my station:
