Orbiting Space Suit Transmitting on 2 meters!

".and if you saw the State of the Union address last night, you would see who else shares these opinions."

Chippy, was that you I saw sitting next to Hitlery?

(Edited for spelling)

 

Chicom-1 theme song was "The East is Red" and was played obviously by a loop tape that had a glitch at the end. Lots of warble. Had recordings of it until a couple of years ago.

We could go back to Sputnik and listen on 20Mhz..! I know that I did..

Reports are the suit is an old outdated one that had been slated for disposal anyway. What is the problem with doing it this way? None.

Bill, W0LPQ

 

Hay im a kid and i have my lissens and i have been trying to convinse my electronics techer to let use lisiton to it.In hopes of recruting a few of them but all i have is a hand held and i dont know what time it is pasing over my area .

 

I heard they are repeating the Suitsat via the IIS on 440mhz at 10W, does anyone know the exact frequency?

 

Operations like this are just the thing the space program needs. Finding ways to get more bang for the buck will allow for more opportunities for Amateur operation from space. I Like it and will be following the Suit Sat story closely. America just needs to dump the Shuttle (30 year old technology) and build a new interplanetary capable vehicle as well as a capsule based dump truck to access the ISS.

 

Are we 100% sure about this? I've heard they were thinking about it.. but not that they decided to do it.

 

who cares. why can't we just listen in and enjoy some fun, after all isn't this what the hobby is all about, having fun with communications?::

 

A reminder that SuitSat will be launched at 22:20 UTC today. It will transmit on 145.990 MHz FM and a special QSL is available for reports, see

http://www.southgatearc.org/news....ate.htm

The latest information and pass predictions can be seen at

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/index.htm

The launch will be broadcast live at

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

73 Trevor M5AKA
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If it doesn't completely burn up upon reentry, I wonder if it will end up on Ebay?

 

A lot of new discoveries and inventions have been made by someone just goofing around so to speak. Who knows what this could spark. Most kids don't care about license class in the interest stage, if they get into it because they heard an Astronaut then great, it is their own intrest that will drive them to advance.

 

Been there done that.

The issues are of second-order to this premise.

But a role model is a role model. Why NOT the best??

 

watch the CB'er talk i am still one and proud to say that's where i got my start before coming to HAM as well as many others and not all HAM are polite i heard hams act like CB'ers and they been hams for a long time

 

As I understand it, they are going to defenestrate the suit at 4PM CST today. Is that correct?

I think my dad will get a kick out of it.

 

With all the bellyaching about the purpose for this mission, I would expect these same people to have said our missions to the MOON were ONLY so we could plant an American Flag there before the "Ruskies" did it. Oh, and to pay for it, we collected some Moon Rocks and dust to put on Ebay!

 

Hey guys, the story made it to Yahoo News!!!  Man, this is exciting, I just might build my own 2 meter beam to try and receive this for fun!

You know what, even if the experiment is a complete failure, the fact that they attempted the experiment AND it brought ham radio more public exposure is a victory in itself!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060203/ap_on_sc/space_station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Here on Earth we get rid of our old clothes by dropping them off at the Salvation Army. But what do astronauts at the international space station do?

Friday, they will stuff an old spacesuit with discarded clothes and a radio transmitter and toss it out the door. Complete with helmet and gloves, off it should float like a lost soul in space.

The transmitter will send recorded messages in six languages to amateur radio operators — known as hams — before eventually re-entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up.

The stunt will precede a six-hour spacewalk by Russian flight engineer Valery Tokarev and U.S. commander Bill McArthur to perform maintenance and photography tasks.

The project, known as SuitSat-1, was the brainchild of a Russian ham radio operator. It will send several words in code for schoolchildren listening on the ground. Radio operators will be able to pick up the messages by tuning into FM frequency 145.990 MHz.

Along with the radio transmitter, it also will have internal sensors to monitor temperature and battery power. As the empty suit floats along, it will transmit its telemetry — temperature, battery power and time it has been in space — to the ground.

On a NASA Web site, students and others can track the spacesuit's location. The suit is expected to pass once or twice a day in the U.S., between midnight and 4 a.m., according to NASA.

"We expect the ham radio operators on the ground to be able to receive the suit signal for several days," said Kwatsi Alibaruho, flight director for the spacewalk at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

(more story on Yahoo!)