[amsat-bb] DX on ISS?

[Orin Durey <do440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anybody getting DX on the ISS?  I've hit it regularly over the past few nights from our QTH here at 64ƒN/96ƒW, 
sometimes when Instant Tracker says it is well below the horizon.  I noticed the same phenomenon when I was 
last active on VHF, hitting the ISS a couple years ago.

I'm wondering if it's purely an Arctic phenomenon related to our proximity to the auroral zone or something 
else.  It seems to be more prominent to the southwest of our QTH.  Gray line in VHF?

We normally have at most a seven-minute window here as the ISS zooms by 7ƒ above the southern horizon, 
1600kms from here.  Last night I was hitting it for 17 minutes--from well below the horizon to above the 
horizon to well below it again.  Weird.

Thanks,  ...Orin   DE VYÿDU

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do440 at ncf dot ca  Orin Durey, Baker Lake, Nunavut
VYÿDU M5-235C
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