BOUNCING SIGNALS OFF THE ISS

Bernd, DF2ZC, reports that he has successfully held a CW contact on 144 MHz by bouncing his signal from the structure of the International Space Station.

According to his posting on Moon Net, his work was triggered by Peter Sundberg, SM2CEW’s attempts to complete a QSO by using the ISS as a reflector.

From Sundberg’s experience DF4ZC believed it would be a worthwhile attempt considering that the B PSK 63 mode would enable us to exchange all information within few seconds if he used only the EME report and QSO rules.

His second try on Sunday December 9th at 1626 UTC. That’s when he copied signals at elevations of greater than 20 degrees and within a minute exchanged all data. Signal reports were about S3 to S5 DF2ZC running only 300 watts out.

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