{"id":9145,"date":"2011-04-23T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/messages-for-me-from-space-station\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:01:44","slug":"messages-for-me-from-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/messages-for-me-from-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages (for me!) from space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/kb1gvr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/kb1gvr.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598754422791581186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Mark KB1GVR<\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screenshot-5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 85px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screenshot-5.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598752346396087298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">When I started receiving packets via the International Space Station earlier this month, I noticed a familiar call: KB1GVR. He was one of the few North American stations who could pick up my packet beacons via PCSAT &#8212; he would then relay them to the internet. This month, when I sent my sigs through the ISS, OM GVR spotted them, and sent reply messages to me via the packet system. I didn&#8217;t get them via the satellite &#8212; they came to me via the &#8220;Stations Heard Via ISS&#8221; web site. But still, it was fun to run into an old friend via the space station. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark KB1GVR When I started receiving packets via the International Space Station earlier this month, I noticed a familiar call: KB1GVR. He was one of the few North American stations who could pick up my packet beacons via PCSAT &#8212; he would then relay them to the internet. This month, when I sent my sigs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/messages-for-me-from-space-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Messages (for me!) from space station&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","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=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}