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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
 

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

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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") ;-)
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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,
 

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