{"id":48814,"date":"2021-05-07T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48814"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:51:15","slug":"listening-to-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/listening-to-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ARISS-ISS-Yaesu-FT-60-VHF-1-e1620401155738.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48815\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ARISS-ISS-Yaesu-FT-60-VHF-1-e1620401155738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, my daughter Geneva and I stepped outside with her Yaesu FT-60 around 8:35 EDT, tuned to 145.80 and listened to Astronaut Mark Vande Hei aboard the ISS speak to a group of students in Green Bank, West Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via the ARISS program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff never gets old.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are standing in the front yard with a handheld radio listening <em>live<\/em> to an astronaut passing overhead in a football field-sized space station travelling at <em>five miles per second<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/546532530?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"528\" height=\"938\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/546532530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch on Vimeo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was just one exchange I recorded. At one point, the audio was so good we could actually hear the hum of equipment, and other astronauts speaking and working in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva has a laser focus on making a career in spaceflight, so she absolutely loves this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<h1>How to listen to the ISS<\/h1>\n<p>Listening to the ISS is very easy: The frequency of the downlink is <strong>145.80 MHz FM<\/strong>. Any scanner or handheld radio that can receive this frequency will work. As the ISS climbs above the horizon, because of doppler-shift, start listening on 145.805, then slowly move to 145.80 as the ISS approaches zenith and finally move to 145.795 MHz as the ISS drops toward the other horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/spotthestation.nasa.gov\/tracking_map.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you need to check the pass first<\/a> to make sure you&#8217;re within the footprint of the station&#8217;s signal.<\/p>\n<p>ARISS contacts happen several times a year.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariss.org\/upcoming-educational-contacts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the ARISS \u201cUpcoming Contacts\u201d page where future\u00a0ARISS QSOs are listed<\/a>. This is a great opportunity to show kids <em>of all ages<\/em> what can be heard with a modest radio!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, my daughter Geneva and I stepped outside with her Yaesu FT-60 around 8:35 EDT, tuned to 145.80 and listened to Astronaut Mark Vande Hei aboard the ISS speak to a group of students in Green Bank, West Virginia via the ARISS program. This stuff never gets old. Here we are standing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[627,3],"tags":[4863,4855,4857,4000,3999,9266],"class_list":["post-48814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","tag-amateur-radio-on-the-international-space-station-ariss","tag-ariss","tag-how-to-listen-to-the-international-space-station","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss","tag-yaesu-ft-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cHk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17822,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/listening-to-the-international-space-station-ariss-with-a-yaesu-vx-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":48814,"position":0},"title":"Listening to the International Space Station (ARISS) with a Yaesu VX-3","author":"Thomas","date":"March 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, my buddy Eric (WD8RIF) sent the following message: \"Take your girls outside with an HT and listen to the ARISS pass in just about 10 minutes.\u00a0The downlink freq is 145.800.\" Though I was in the middle of another project, I took Eric's advice: I grabbed my Yaesu VX-3, corralled\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/fm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ISS","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ISS.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ISS.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ISS.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31731,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/listening-to-ariss-contacts-last-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":48814,"position":1},"title":"Listening to ARISS contacts last week","author":"Thomas","date":"April 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I get just as excited as my kids when I receive any communications from the International Space Station. 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