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Amateur Radio In Space
 Sights, Sounds, links and articles
for the Ham Radio Operator!


STS-135 THE LAST SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT

"Live VLF Natural Radio Collection" from all over the world! 
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MORE SOUNDS AND SSTV FROM SPACE!

NORTH TEXAS AMATEUR RADIO BALLOON FLIGHT AUDIO!



SOUNDS FROM THE SPACE STATION!
Amateur Radio Operator KC5ACR / Astronaut William S. McArthur, Expedition 12 commander and NASA Space Station Science Officer talks to students with Ham radio from the Space Station on February 2 and other dates, 2006.

These recordings were made by N4UJW on passes over Texas using Radio Shack HTX-212
 and a simple vertical Slim Jim antenna.
Click the dated text below to listen.
NOTE: You will not hear both sides of transmissions, only Astronaut McArthur responding on the downlink frequency of 145.800mhz!
The silent periods for questions has been edited out.

02/02/06 Lasts about 22 seconds Wav file 173kb.

02/08/06 More audio
Mp3 file 340kb about 2:54 minutes.....long file
 and continues until fade out at the horizon

Frequencies in use
(Subject to change)

These frequencies are currently used for ARISS general QSO'">
Voice and Packet Downlink: 145.80 (Worldwide)
Voice Uplink: 144.49 for Regions 2 and 3 (The Americas / Pacific)
Voice Uplink: 145.20 for Region 1 (Europe, Central Asia and Africa)
Packet Uplink: 145.99 (Worldwide)
Crossband FM repeater downlink: 145.80 MHz (Worldwide)
Crossband FM repeater uplink: 437.80 MHz (Worldwide)

All frequencies are subject to Doppler shifting.


Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)

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Suitsat-1 shown in the picture above
Suitsat-1 becomes a "Falling Star"
Suitsat has re-entered!

On the 7th of September, 2006 at 16:00 GMT, Suitsat re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Southern Ocean at 110.4° East latitude and 46.3°South longitude. It was over a point some 1400 km south-southwest of Cape Leeuwin (Augusta), Western Australia.

It's signals long faded from ground stations during this Ham radio experiment in space from an empty Russian space suit, Suitsat-1 plunged into history!
Hear great telemetry audio recorded by N2SPI from Suitsat-1
338 kb mono audio mp3 (22 seconds)

October, 2008 ISS SSTV AND AUDIO FILES FROM THE ISS!

sstv image
SSTV IMAGES - Left side image as received off the air from the ISS. 
The right image was enhanced to remove noise using MMSSTV
as shown on the right side above.
Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, took off for the International Space Station (ISS)
 on Sunday, October 12, 2008, becoming the sixth private citizen to fly
with the Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA) for a short-term mission
 on the ISS. Not two hours after he arrived on the ISS on October 14,
Garriott was making ham radio contacts, just as his father,
Owen Garriott, W5LFL --the first ham to make QSOs from space -- did in 1983.

Compiled audio from a pass over Texas October 19, 2008!
MP3, 197kb, 1 min, 40 sec.
(Long noise bursts during ground station transmissions edited out)


In the face of the STS-107 disaster -
Ham Radio was there behind the scenes !


"Sorry Captain, I've given it all I had.
I've been beamed up out of range."
In Memory of
James Doohan
"SCOTTY"
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