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I was really upset for little while which inspired me to set a goal. I could only sit and watch the overpass on the screen. There was no way for me to get the radio reconnected in time to try to contact the ISS before it passed by me. I had unhooked the Yeasu V-8 handheld radio from Arrow.

At 11:20 Sunday night the ISS went through the center of the star marking Crozet. When I looked back to check if I set the call sign correctly I saw that the ISS was heading straight over my home location. I was busy setting my call sign for my home location and forgot to check on Orbitron. Thus permitting preparation time before the satellite passes. I am happy to report that it can program ahead and I can set a program buzzer notifying that the object is coming into range. I had been asked if I could program it ahead in time so I would know what path the ISS would take at any given time and mark the time it would be overhead. It was, so I watched it while I explored what the program was capable of doing. However, Sunday night I was reconnecting the old computer back to my home internet connection and I thought I would check to see if Orbitron connected properly and was working. I want to thank Larry for asking me to hold a short class on how to use my equipment because I enjoyed showing it work and I was encouraged to learn more about what can be done with the program. On the next pass it was a little too far out of reach to the east of us for me to make a contact on Field Day before 2:00. (Orbitron will be on Apple products in the near future, the programmer is working on writing it and said, “He hopes it would be ready soon.”) Orbitron, as well as my Apple program, GoSatWatch, both showed that when the ISS got close to where we were on Sunday it crossed a little too far out of reach to the west of us on its first pass. I had to keep resetting it for an accurate reading.

It was working on my old computer which I noticed didn’t connect to my Apple network very well. I like this program better than any of the ones I tried because it offers good details on many of the satellites floating around in space. During Field Day I was asked to show and talk about my Arrow tracking antenna that works with a satellite tracking program called Orbitron.