What was I hereing?

[Wahoos4Life]

So yesterday, i was out on Lake anna fishing, And My radio turned to the ISS freq. I was so excited, I was finally getting to here The space station on my 106


But it wasnt Nasa communications

Instead , It sounded like a bunch of people throwing out there callsigns , and then saying thank you

It lasted about 3 minutes

[DDan]

It sounds like the ISS was in repeater mode. That allows hams to use the ISS station to contact other hams.

[WouffHong]

You may even have heard me :-) - When the astros are not using it, they sometimes leave it in a voice-repeater state wherein we frantically (Grin) call in with our call and a location quandrant (like em96) and another ham responds with his quadrant and call -YES it IS fast because the ability to hear and transmit through the ISS is VERY short as it passes overhead. ;-)
Take a look at n2yo.com and issfanclub.com for times!
73 (NO "s") ;-)
Tom, W4NOV

[Wahoos4Life]

So I was hearing The ISS has it was passing over, but it was hams using a repeater attached to it?

which is what I thought it was, but wasnt sure, everyone was throwing out a call sign quite fast,

[poltergeisty]

Every time I look up the darn thing it's near Africa. LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING: ISS (ZARYA)

[Wahoos4Life]

Originally Posted by poltergeisty

Every time I look up the darn thing it's near Africa. LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING: ISS (ZARYA)

try this site:

Go to Configuration - Select from map, Choose your location on the map, then your time zone at the bottom of the map, hit ok

then go to sattelites - then radio ameature sattelites, it well tell you what time its passing over the area you chose.

[BamaScan]

Listen to 145.800.