Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
Finally, the moment I've been waiting for, amateur radio on the top of hackernews. :)<p>It's also worth mentioning we've got a lot of amateur radio satellites in orbit[0], and more coming, including a geosynchronous satellite launching sometime in March (Es'hail 2)[1].<p>Some are very easy to get into with just an HT (or two for full-duplex).[2]<p>[0] <a href="http://www.amsat.org/status/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amsat.org/status/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://amsat-uk.org/tag/eshail-2/" rel="nofollow">https://amsat-uk.org/tag/eshail-2/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrA62t141s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrA62t141s</a>