{"id":10921,"date":"2011-04-15T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/space-beacon-success-and-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:23:27","slug":"space-beacon-success-and-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/space-beacon-success-and-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Beacon Success (and failure)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stationsheard.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 192px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stationsheard.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595744283704812514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">On the Yuri Gagarin anniversary day, I listened for the FM voice beacon from the ARISS-1 satellite on the space shuttle. Nothing heard here. But I was listening near the end of the period scheduled for the transmission, so I may have missed it, or the batteries may have drained. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But this morning I finally got confirmation that at least one of my packets made it through the Space Station&#8217;s digipeater. The image above is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariss.net\/\">&#8220;Stations Heard via ISS&#8221;<\/a> web site. Obviously I need to do something to the position (Lat\/Long) info in my packet so that I can show up on the APRS maps. Perhaps my symbol should be the SolderSmoke logo&#8230; <\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Yuri Gagarin anniversary day, I listened for the FM voice beacon from the ARISS-1 satellite on the space shuttle. Nothing heard here. But I was listening near the end of the period scheduled for the transmission, so I may have missed it, or the batteries may have drained. But this morning I finally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/space-beacon-success-and-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Space Beacon Success (and failure)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satellites","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10923,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/10923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}