Woohoo! First post to the Fediverse *from space via the International Space Station*!!!! (Packet sent via RF to space, then retransmitted to earth from the ISS digipeater back to earth, detected by my bot and posted to the Fediverse). Message from @wd9ewk https://m.ai6yr.org/@fedi_aprs/113001580683927405 #iss #space #aviation #nasa #aprs #hamradio
@ai6yr I sent the message to FEDI from my TH-D75 handheld radio, with an Elk Antennas handheld 2m/70cm log periodic antenna. My message packet was retransmitted by the ISS, and received by KO6KL-10 in California, where it was sent to APRS-IS for your APRS > FEDI bot.
@ai6yr During the ISS pass around 1905 UTC (12.05pm PDT) today, I made packet QSOs using APRS messages with AE6LJ in northern California and XE2/K6MOX (K6MOX-1) in Baja California. TH-D75 with Elk log periodic, using "phrases" (canned messages stored in the radio, instead of typing them on the radio's DTMF keypad).
@ai6yr Although I was not working the ISS cross-band voice repeater (downlink around 437.800 MHz +/-) starting at 1906 UTC (12.06pm PDT), I was listening to it while working the digipeater on 145.825 MHz. More activity in FM than packet. Audio dropouts in the recording happened when my TH-D75 transmitted packet (the TH-D75 is not capable of cross-band full-duplex operation).
@wd9ewk Woo hoo! Historic event... unless there are astronauts on the ISS who are posting to the Fediverse and not telling us, this is absolutely the first "toot via space" @ARISS_Intl
@ai6yr @wd9ewk @ARISS_Intl uhm... I definitely used mastodon and pixelfed via satellite internet before...
Sorry
@kyonshi @wd9ewk @ARISS_Intl Is your satellite Internet on the ISS?
@ai6yr @wd9ewk @ARISS_Intl no, but it's in space.
just pointing out that sending toots via space has been done before.
@ai6yr @wd9ewk @ARISS_Intl now sending toots via space station likely wasn't and is cool and all, but that's not what you said