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The pass times for MIR are now in the evening, which should make it
easier for more people to have a try at digi'ing their beacons via the
satellite. Yesterday evening (19th) I found it quite easy to get a
beacon through using only 3W from a handheld into a zero gain vertical
antenna.

The MIR frequency is 145.985, but, if the tuning step of your rig is
12.5kHz, the Doppler shift will allow you to get in during the first
part of each pass if you use 145.9875.

In UI-View "Station Setup", set "Unproto address" to "BEACON,R0MIR",
make sure your "Beacon comment" is short, and set "Beacon interval" to
0.5 (every 30 seconds). However, once you've seen that your beacon has
been digi'd, please set the interval to something longer to give others
a chance!

The pass times for MIR for the next few days for my location (Boston)
are:-

Date Acquisition (BST) Duration (mins:secs) Max. Elev. (deg)
---- ----------------- -------------------- ----------------
20th July 19:33:50 09:00 14
20th July 21:08:02 10:00 44
20th July 22:43:05 10:07 64
21st July 00:18:17 09:55 32
21st July 01:53:52 07:50 8
21st July 18:25:19 07:15 6
21st July 19:58:32 09:45 27
21st July 21:33:19 10:15 62
21st July 23:08:29 10:08 50
22nd July 00:43:46 09:21 17
22nd July 18:49:19 09:00 15
22nd July 20:23:35 10:00 46
22nd July 21:58:39 10:07 64
22nd July 23:33:49 09:57 31

--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK

Well, I heard it last night but no location packets
heard, not even mine!

I will try again tonight.

David.
G0PDL.

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--
David Lees G0PDL
Solihull West Midlands

Managed to digi last night through mir

Also heard G0TRT and on a earlier pass G8MZX

Also varies european stations furthest Germany

Andy, G7OCW

In article <k8I4CCARQFl3EwbH@...>, Roger Barker wrote:

Date Acquisition (BST) Duration (mins:secs) Max. Elev. (deg)
---- ----------------- -------------------- ----------------

This pass was voice - could hear a french speaking cosmonaut :-)

21st July 21:33:19 10:15 62

FWIW according to STSPLUS, all the following passes should be visible
to the naked eye for at least part of the pass. (Its really cloudy here
at the moment)

I plan to try for the 23.08 pass tonight if its on data.

21st July 23:08:29 10:08 50
22nd July 00:43:46 09:21 17
22nd July 20:23:35 10:00 46
22nd July 21:58:39 10:07 64
22nd July 23:33:49 09:57 31

Carl
gw0tqm
carl.littlejohns@...

In article <k8I4CCARQFl3EwbH@...>, Roger Barker wrote:

20th July 22:43:05 10:07 64

Yay! Not sure if I digipeated thru at all, no asterix by my call :( but

g7omn-3 and g7ocw I heard (probably direct??)

ok1smn in JO70BS
d02dp-10 in JO31NK
both those were ordinary UI packets that contained a locator that UIVIEW
snatched succesfully.

M0BII 148miles due 103deg
G8MZX 134miles due 96 degrees
G4ZEC-1 127miles due 130degree

Also in the capture file were packets from:
pe1rdw-3 running aprs, but ui-view didnt spot him I think because he set
his UI packets to his Locator square???? as did PE5YES -- are we looking
at a new APRS 'mode' here???

also saw EB7FME trying to level two connect to G3SOA and F5ILB in adjacent
packets

S57NML tried to connect to M0CJV

AND the clouds parted and I got the best naked eye look at MIR yet as it
drifted over my back garden.

Thanks for flagging this one up Roger. Great fun!

Carl
carl.littlejohns@...

Hi Carl,

You may have heard me direct? I also didn't see MIR dig my call but i
heard:
G4IDE
G4ZEC
M0BII
all via the MIR digi....


~~~~~~~~~~
Jon Eyes G7OMN.
Southport. UK.

Heard mir again last night at 21:00 but still nothing
on the screen.

Decided to have a listen around on voice and
discovered VERY low RX sigs then discovered short on
antenna downlead.

23:00 pass much better!!!

Heard several stations then switched back to 144.800
and heard G4LVZ in Tamworth and G7VUR mobile in North
Birmingham.

David.


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--
David Lees G0PDL
Solihull West Midlands

In article <k8I4CCARQFl3EwbH@...>, Roger Barker
<roger@...> writes

From: Roger Barker <roger@...>

The pass times for MIR are now in the evening, which should make it
easier for more people to have a try at digi'ing their beacons via the
satellite. Yesterday evening (19th) I found it quite easy to get a
beacon through using only 3W from a handheld into a zero gain vertical
antenna.

To reply to my own message...

It seems that on the earlier passes the French person in the MIR crew is
operating on phone. I can't imagine what several hundred stations on FM
all calling at once must sound like!

The later passes are packet. I definitely have more success at the very
start of the pass, presumably because the satellite is still out of
range of a lot of the EU traffic.

I have also noticed PE stations using what one is announcing as "APRS
space mode" - perhaps this is another addition to the "protocol"?

--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK

22:06:58T G7OMN-3>BEACON,R0MIR Port=1 <UI C Len=50>:
!5338.10N/00259.27W-Jon. Southport. GB7OMN {UIV10}
22:07:01R G7OMN-3>BEACON,R0MIR* Port=1 <UI C Len=50>:
!5338.10N/00259.27W-Jon. Southport. GB7OMN {UIV10}


Well, I finally got MIR to digi my beacon.... Unfortunately, I didn't see a
beacon from anybody else on this pass.... :-(

Come on where were you all? I'll be watching carefully on the 23:35 BST
pass...

~~~~~~~
Jon Eyes G7OMN
Southport. UK.

In article <002401bed487$144b3860$8455883e@...>, Jon Eyes
<jon@...> writes

From: "Jon Eyes" <jon@...>

22:06:58T G7OMN-3>BEACON,R0MIR Port=1 <UI C Len=50>:
!5338.10N/00259.27W-Jon. Southport. GB7OMN {UIV10}
22:07:01R G7OMN-3>BEACON,R0MIR* Port=1 <UI C Len=50>:
!5338.10N/00259.27W-Jon. Southport. GB7OMN {UIV10}


Well, I finally got MIR to digi my beacon.... Unfortunately, I didn't see a
beacon from anybody else on this pass.... :-(

Come on where were you all? I'll be watching carefully on the 23:35 BST
pass...

I heard you on both passes, but didn't manage to get in on either.
Here's my list from the 23:33 pass:-

Callsign Type Longitude Latitude Miles Bearing Last Heard
-------- ---- --------- -------- ----- ------- ----------
+G7OMN-3* HOME 002.59.27W 53.38.10N 130.3 292 Jul 22 23:37
+G7OCW* HOME 002.30.00W 52.41.02N 104.7 260 Jul 22 23:36
+G7PAF-3* NODE 001.33.68W 53.47.05N 84.3 313 Jul 22 23:39
+G4ZEC-1* NODE 000.59.33W 52.00.20N 77.9 211 Jul 22 23:35

Key: '+' = UI-View user '*' = heard via a digipeater

--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK

In article <002401bed487$144b3860$8455883e@...>, Jon Eyes wrote:

22:06:58T G7OMN-3>BEACON,R0MIR Port=1 <UI C Len=50>:
!5338.10N/00259.27W-Jon. Southport. GB7OMN {UIV10}
22:07:01R G7OMN-3>BEACON,R0MIR* Port=1 <UI C Len=50>:
!5338.10N/00259.27W-Jon. Southport. GB7OMN {UIV10}


Well, I finally got MIR to digi my beacon.... Unfortunately, I didn't see a
beacon from anybody else on this pass.... :-(

Come on where were you all? I'll be watching carefully on the 23:35 BST
pass...

I was there- but despite several connected stations, nothing in UI except from
MIR and a couple digipeating to each other.

I heard you at the end of the pass, but not thru MIR. Bit of an odd one that,
60degree elevation and 5/9 signals!


Carl
carl.littlejohns@...