Via Southgate: Saarland radio amateurs contacted astronaut on the ISS

Germany’s DARC reports NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS has made many radio amateurs happy in recent weeks when he operated directly from the space station via the ISS repeater and gave some amateurs a QSO with NA1SS

A translation of the DARC post reads:

In the past three to four years there have mostly been no contacts with the crews outside of the school contacts.

On Friday, July 22, NA1SS was heard over Europe in the evening, allowing European radio amateurs to QSO. The following day Joshua, DL3JOP, was able to QSO with NA1SS at 18:08 UTC.

Motivated by this, John, DK9JC, also set off with his portable equipment in order to hear his call confirmed by Kjell on the next overflight 1.5 hours later (21:45 local).

Anyone who wants to try their luck should have a 2 m and 70 cm directional antenna and a full duplex transceiver system. The repeater frequencies and CTCSS can be found on the ARISS website
https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

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