I talked to space!

I talked to space today! Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor has made random unscheduled contacts on some of the Saturdays recently and she was doing it again today!

ISS Frequencies (all FM):

Voice and SSTV Downlink: 145.80 (Worldwide)
Voice Uplink: 144.49 for ITU Regions 2 and 3 (The Americas, and the Pacific and Southern
Voice Uplink: 145.20 for ITU Region 1 (Europe, Russia and Africa)

My setup: Arrow II satellite antenna, Kenwood TM-V71A mobile radio powered by a Bioenno 12V 9AH LiFePO4 battery. Close up pics of body support system I built:

The graphic in the top right is a screencap from the Orbitron satellite prediction software for Windows.

This was recorded in Cary, North Carolina on the 2018-11-03 - 1536 UTC ISS pass.

Thanks to Patrick, WD9EWK for providing his audio recording as I forgot to hit record on my audio recorder!

73, John Brier KG4AKV

[joshuagalasse]

He looks a bit awkward there alone with his installation but what he achieved is really unique! Congratulations 😊

[millenium_bug]

My dream contact! Sad that they do this very seldom.

[keesvanoosbree]

HOLY COW!! WAY TO GO JOHN! Living the dream with that contact. I am surprised that you got out your equipment just for a random ISS pass. It's all about luck! Hope you make many more!


73 de KE0STO

[MXGVJake]

You did it son! I'm proud of you!

[FFox]

Just came from your TF2 sniping Such a coincidence I'm fan of ISS too! This was so interesting to see!

[smeemer]

Wow! What an awesome contact! Great work man!

[paulocendegui_cevna]

Is great contact, always call to international space station one day contact 73

[fredbissnette]

were you using the 2m/70cm repeater or the 2m up/downlink?

[genesisarcherrivera]

pls make a social experiment about
you showing them that you can communicate to astraunauts