Glenn E. Graf - Operator
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
Bill McArthur QSO1 11/26/2005 13:58 UTC Orbit 40,124 |
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Bill McArthur QSO2 11/27/2005 11:48 UTC Orbit 40,139 |
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Bill McArthur QSO4 12/11/2005 UTC Orbit 40,359 |
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Bill McArthur QSO8 03/11/2006 14:15 UTC Orbit 41,780 |
Expedition 10
Leroy Chiao QSO1 12/09/2004 17:25 UTC Orbit 34,589 |
Expedition 9
Mike Finke QSO1 07/31/2004 17:05 UTC Orbit 32,531 [Down link audio only] |
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Mike Finke QSO2 10/23/2004 12:15 UTC Orbit 33,847 |
Expedition 8
Mike Foale QSO112/6/2003 20:10 UTC Orbit 28,800 |
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Mike Foale QSO2 12/28/2003 13:01 UTC Orbit 29,139 |
Expedition 7
Ed Lu QSO1 06/29/2003 12:50 UTC Orbit 26,296 |
Expedition 5
Valerie Korzun QSO1 08/24/2002 13:22 UTC Orbit 21,169 |
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Valery Korzun QSO2 10/14/2002 22:50 UTC Orbit 22,241 |
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Valery Korzun QSO3 12/01/2002 02:35 UTC Orbit 23,001 |
Sergei Treshev QSO1 10/10/2002 02:02 UTC Orbit 22,209 |
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:
David Wolf 10/10/02 02:00 UTC Orbit 22,209 |
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.
Click on the grid to see the full information for each contact. Two have recordings of the contact.
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: