Comment by Overtonwindow

8 years ago

I have been trying to years to raise someone at the ISS on ham radio without success. Even on the EchoLink. Anyone have tips for what I might be missing here?

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tomswartz07  8 years ago

Are you talking about using the repeater on the ISS, or contacting one of the astronauts on the ISS?

Contacting one of the astronauts is fairly difficult, as they have no particular scheduled time where they listen it. It just happens to be luck-of-the-draw.

As far as using the repeater, I think most of the radios are stowed. http://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

I've never heard of the EchoLink connection to the ISS... Do you have details on that?