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Here's the capture file from R0MIR on 30 January 1997 (UTC), covering a few passes over central Arizona that day.
I didn't request a QSL card for the second packet connection, but I did keep the capture file. Fun to look back through it after all these years, and also realize how inefficient that single-user orbiting packet mailbox was.
I used a RadioShack HTX-202 2m handheld radio with a 35W VHF amplifier, into a RadioShack VHF/UHF discone about 20 feet/6m above the ground. I think the TNC was an MFJ-1270.
A thread...
Packet from Mir... I have a QSL card for a connection to the R0MIR-1 packet mailbox on Christmas Day (UTC) 1996. Had to leave a message, get a message number from the packet system, and send that in for the QSL card. I don't have the file where I captured my connection as I left my message, but still have the QSL card after all these years...
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I used my AT-D890UV on an ISS pass Tuesday evening. Still working OK. This time, I enabled the recording function from the menu.
Like with many Icom transceivers, the AT-D890UV writes multple recordings - every change from RX to TX and vice versa, and maybe even with frequency changes.
Don't know what format is used with the AT-D890UV (Icom used WAV files). Tried to download the 48 recordings from that pass, but the v1.03 CPS software threw an error (file isn't on my Win11 Pro laptop).
Mark