Arup- One thing about your recording. Mine always has constant background hiss because my squelch is wide open. When you are working the sats, you should have your squelch wide open. -David, N9KT

Off hours is definitely the key. I'm a night owl, so I concentrate on passes from 10pm - 1am. I've been able to make up to six contacts in a pass! During the day, I'm lucky to make one. -David, N9KT

FYI for anyone trying, the ISS FM Repeater has been off the air for over 24 hours now. Here's a great page to see the status of the birds: https://www.amsat.org/status/index.php -David, N9KT

Has anyone else had trouble getting into the ISS repeater with an HT and an Arrow? I was the only one on it tonight so I got to experiment. First thing I found was that the orientation (around the axi

👍 Maybe one of these days you and I will make contact on the birds! -David, N9KT

Yeah, AO-85 is dead. Put on PO-101 instead! Very easy to work! Also AO-92, but it's got to be in the sun. -David, N9KT

Well, I go out every night and make contacts. However, I can only get the birds about 25 degrees above the horizon since I've got trees and houses around me and I'm standing in my backyard. Five steps

I was in my backyard with an Arrow and HT surrounded by trees, so I wasn't able to acquire the ISS just above the horizon either. I need to experiment more too. For my table, I just did the calculatio

I made three contacts on the ISS repeater last night! It's very loud and clear. Better than even my local repeaters! Here's the frequencies I used: ISSTone 67.0TXRX21AOS145.990437.81022AOS 60 degrees4

From the pass over Indianapolis today: -David, N9KT

Other satellites are there, it's just that most of them are too dim to "see". I had to go down about 15-20 sightings before I ran into a few others that you could see. -David, N9KT

You calculate the pass and then tap on the summary data of the pass.

I use "ISS Detector". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runar.issdetector&hl=en_US For $1 you can get ALL the ham radio satellites. I LOVE it! -David, N9KT

Take out the Diplexer if you have one. Hook up each radio to the appropriate cable. For AO-91 & AO-92 set the receive frequency on the receive radio and just change the frequency on the transmit radio

>> ... On our "easy FM voice sats," you're not changing the 2M frequencies to accommodate for Doppler, are you??? Nope, I use the frequency pairs right off your awesome website! http://work-sat.com/Ho

What I find most valuable when using full duplex is: 1. It's obvious when you need to switch to the next frequency pair. 2. You *know* when you are getting into the bird. This is actually more importa

I use the mod Clint just posted and it works great! The tripod is too much work to drag around. -David, N9KT

I use "ISS Detector". https://www.issdetector.com/ It's cross platform and easy to use. The free version tracks the ISS. For $3 you get all the satellites and other astral bodies like comets, etc. -Da

ISS Detector does the same thing. I use a rubber band to strap my phone to the boom of my Arrow antenna and then all I do is make sure the dot is inside the circle and it's pointing exactly at the sat

I guess it works on IOS now too! https://www.issdetector.com/ -David, N9KT