[sarex] ISS/PCsat joint windows

[Bob Bruninga <bruninga@xxxxxxxx>]

We saw ISS on 145.825 for joint ops with PCsat for a few hour
this afternoon, but as of this writing, she is back on ISS freq.

Gil Carman at JSC computed times when PCsat and ISS are in range.  His
predictions INCLUDE the 3 planned ISS maneuvers over the next 2 weeks.
If you have a pass of EITHER spacecraft during these windows, you have a
chance at witnessing a double hop path.  Gil notes that Saturday around
19:50 UTC looks like a good chance for a "double hop" link over the U.S.

Here is about 1/3rd of his list.  I removed all times when the range was
greater than 2000 km between them.  For the full original list, see my
ISS-FAQ web page:  http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/iss-faq.html

Window Opens UTC    CLOSEST RNG  CLOSES DURATION
------------------  -----  ----  -----  --------
Thu 10 Oct02 12:18  14:10   467  16:00  03:41
Fri 11 Oct02 06:40  07:50   718  09:42  03:01
Sat 12 Oct02 00:24  02:17   635  03:25  03:00

*** Reboost #1
Sat 12 Oct02 18:49  19:57   641  21:49  02:59
Sun 13 Oct02 13:16  14:25   412  15:33  02:17
Mon 14 Oct02 07:43  08:53   637  09:58  02:14

*** Reboost #2
Tue 15 Oct02 02:12  03:21   773  03:44  01:31
Tue 15 Oct02 20:42  21:02  1081  21:24  00:41
Tue 15 Oct02 21:27  21:50   866  22:10  00:42
Wed 16 Oct02 15:11  15:30   962  15:50  00:38
Wed 16 Oct02 15:58  16:18   974  16:37  00:38

*** Phasing burn
Thu 17 Oct02 09:41  09:59   831  10:17  00:36
Thu 17 Oct02 10:28  10:47  1036  11:04  00:36
Fri 18 Oct02 04:12  04:28  1472  04:46  00:33
Fri 18 Oct02 04:58  05:16   474  05:34  00:35
Fri 18 Oct02 05:48  06:04  1973  06:19  00:31
Fri 18 Oct02 23:29  23:46   572  00:03  00:33
Sat 19 Oct02 00:17  00:34  1313  00:49  00:32
Sat 19 Oct02 18:00  18:16  1138  18:32  00:31
Sat 19 Oct02 18:47  19:03   708  19:19  00:31
Sun 20 Oct02 12:31  12:45  1742  13:00  00:29
Sun 20 Oct02 13:18  13:33   399  13:48  00:30
Sun 20 Oct02 14:06  14:21  1640  14:35  00:29
Mon 21 Oct02 07:48  08:03   787  08:17  00:29
Mon 21 Oct02 08:36  08:50  1040  09:05  00:29
Tue 22 Oct02 02:18  02:32  1342  02:46  00:27

Window Opens UTC    CLOSEST RNG  CLOSES DURATION
------------------  -----  ----  -----  --------
Tue 22 Oct02 03:05  03:20   528  03:34  00:28
Tue 22 Oct02 20:49  21:01  1902  21:15  00:25
Tue 22 Oct02 21:35  21:49   463  22:04  00:28
Tue 22 Oct02 22:24  22:37  1423  22:51  00:26
Wed 23 Oct02 16:06  16:19   904  16:32  00:26
Wed 23 Oct02 16:53  17:07   878  17:20  00:26
Thu 24 Oct02 10:36  10:48  1419  11:01  00:25
Thu 24 Oct02 11:23  11:36   452  11:49  00:26
Thu 24 Oct02 12:12  12:24  1856  12:36  00:24
Fri 25 Oct02 05:06  05:18  1930  05:30  00:23
Fri 25 Oct02 05:53  06:06   509  06:18  00:25
Fri 25 Oct02 06:41  06:54  1324  07:06  00:24
Sat 26 Oct02 00:23  00:35   933  00:47  00:24
Sat 26 Oct02 01:11  01:23   831  01:35  00:24
Sat 26 Oct02 18:53  19:04  1404  19:16  00:23

Sat 26 Oct02 19:40  19:52   451  20:05  00:24
Sat 26 Oct02 20:29  20:40  1803  20:52  00:22
Sun 27 Oct02 13:23  13:34  1870  13:45  00:22
Sun 27 Oct02 14:10  14:22   485  14:34  00:23
Sun 27 Oct02 14:58  15:10  1315  15:21  00:23

The digipeater aliases for ISS are RS0ISS, ARISS, and WIDE
For PCsat the only reliable one is W3ADO-1

de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob

PCsat WEB  page     http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat.html
ISS-APRS FAQ:       http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/iss-faq.html
APRS LIVE pages     http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs.html
APRS SATELLITES     http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/astars.html
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