[amsat-bb] ISS voice pass today 9/5/07 18:44
MM
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Wed Sep 5 06:09:28 PDT 2007
hi all
do not forget todays ISS voice pass.
Listen on 145.800.
position data for Boston Ma, in local time 2:46 pm
3. ISS (ZARYA)
edt Date Time Azim/Elev Range Lat Long Doppler
Phs/M Offp
05Sep2007 1446 294/ 0 2160 47N 97W
97
05Sep2007 1447 289/ 3 1809 46N 93W
100
05Sep2007 1448 283/ 8 1475 44N 89W
102
05Sep2007 1449 273/ 13 1172 42N 85W
105
05Sep2007 1450 255/ 18 933 40N 81W
107
05Sep2007 1451 229/ 22 820 38N 78W
110
05Sep2007 1452 200/ 20 881 36N 74W
112
05Sep2007 1453 180/ 14 1088 33N 71W
115
05Sep2007 1454 168/ 9 1375 31N 68W
117
05Sep2007 1455 160/ 4 1702 29N 66W
120
miles wrote:
ISS Amateur Radio Status: September 1, 2007
By Miles Mann WF1F,
MAREX-MG News www.marexmg.org
Manned Amateur Radio Experiment
International Space Station, Voice link, September
05, 2007 Wednesday
Starting at 18:44 UTC
Ending approximately at 18:54 UTC
Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois,
direct via N9CHA Wed 2007-09-05 18:44 UTC
For the next few weeks the crew of the International
Space Station will be treating
Short-Wave-Listeners and Amateur radio operators to
live down links from ISS via the
Amateur
Radio station on ISS. The crew will be conducting
Weekly radio links to schools in North
America. Everyone is invited to listen to the down
links.
On Wednesday 2007-09-05 18:44 UTC, ISS will pass
over the central USA and will be
actively
talking to students.
The path of the International Space station will be
entering the USA from the Pacific Ocean
near Ocean Falls BC Canada. ISS will then travel
across Canada and cross over into the USA
near Fargo ND. It will then continue across the
Great Lakes and exit the USA over Virginia
and onto Bermuda.
The Best listening will be 500 miles on either side
of a line from Fargo ND to Virginia.
In fact most people all along the Canadian and US
border will be able to hear the Space
Station with a modest outside antenna and a good
Scanner / Receiver.
This week Short-wave-Listeners and amateur radio
operators will be able to listen to the ISS
via amateur radio directly. Listeners living within
500+ miles of one of the cities below
should be able to hear the signals directly with a
simple scanner or other VHF receiver (an
outside antenna is recommended 0 dBd gain or
better). ISS will be transmitting on 145.800 FM
(5 kHz deviation). You will only be able to here
one side of the conversation, since the
school will be transmitting on an undisclosed uplink
frequency (VHF or UHF).
If you do not have a tracking program, here is a
live link to NASA that will show you where
ISS is located.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html
Tips on listening:
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/issvoicetips.html
Link to Audio files from Previous school schedules.
All files recorded directly off the air
via a public Amateur Radio down link frequency.
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/issaudiofiles.html
Current ISS Crew Members as of August 2007
The new crew #15 consist of:
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin
Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov
Flight Engineer Clay Anderson
Orbital Tracking Data from August 26, 2007
ARISS [+]
1 25544U 98067A 07239.31605324 .00012774 00000-0
83342-4 0 8663
2 25544 51.6355 96.7664 0008176 296.0554 54.5781
15.76271879501995
Orbit path for August 29, 2007
Elevations and angles are measured from Boston Mass,
your actual angles will vary.
3. ISS (ZARYA)
UTC Date Time Azim/Elev Distance Direction
Nearest City..
05Sep2007 1847 294/ 0 45.5 km NW of Fargo,
ND
05Sep2007 1847 291/ 2 174.8 km NW of
Brooklyn Park, MN
05Sep2007 1848 289/ 4 91.5 km ENE of
Roseville, MN
05Sep2007 1848 285/ 6 49.1 km SW of Wausau,
WI
05Sep2007 1849 281/ 9 21.2 km SSE of
Sheboygan, WI
05Sep2007 1849 275/ 11 28.1 km NNE of
Kalamazoo, MI
05Sep2007 1850 268/ 15 26.2 km SE of Toledo,
OH
05Sep2007 1850 258/ 18 51.9 km South of Canton,
OH
05Sep2007 1851 244/ 21 141.6 km SSE of Mount
Lebanon, PA
05Sep2007 1851 229/ 22 46.7 km NNW of
Richmond, VA
05Sep2007 1852 212/ 22 22.6 km ESE of
Virginia Beach, VA
05Sep2007 1852 197/ 19 232.9 km SE of
Virginia Beach, VA
05Sep2007 1853 185/ 16 443.4 km SE of
Virginia Beach, VA
05Sep2007 1853 177/ 13 559.9 km West of
Hamilton, Bermuda
05Sep2007 1854 170/ 10 419.3 km West of
Hamilton, Bermuda
05Sep2007 1854 165/ 7 356.2 km SW of
Hamilton, Bermuda
05Sep2007 1855 161/ 5 408.3 km SSW of
Hamilton, Bermuda
05Sep2007 1855 158/ 3 543.5 km South of
Hamilton, Bermuda
05Sep2007 1856 155/ 1 716.0 km SSE of
Hamilton, Bermuda
--------------------------------end of
pass------------------------------------
Subject:
ARISS event - Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin,
Illinois, USA Wednesday (Sep 5) 18:44 UTC
From:
"Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]"
An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS
school contact has
been planned with participants at Gail Borden Public
Library, Elgin,
Illinois, USA on 05 Sep. The event is scheduled to
begin at
approximately 18:44 UTC.
The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS
and N9CHA. The
contact should be audible in most of eastern North
America. Interested
parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz
downlink. In
addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and
EchoLink. The
participants are expected to conduct the
conversation in English.
Gail Borden Library is over 130 years old with a
long history of
providing materials and services to community
members. The first library
building was donated by the family of Gail Borden,
the inventor of
condensed milk. The Library has a history of being
innovative. GBPL was
the first library in the country to create a center
for preschoolers,
offering intellectual and social stimulation in a
creative, hands-on
environment. GBPL was on of the first libraries in
the country to
install a fiber optic network, linking the library
with the City of
Elgin and six area schools. Other distinguishing
hallmarks include
developing services for the Hispanic population with
the addition of
Spanish-language materials and formation of a
steering committee which
led to the creation of a literacy training
organization. The contact
will be part of our Space: Dare to Dream exhibit
which is bringing the
daring and imagination of the space program through
NASA materials and
partnering with our local school district. The
students participating in
the contact represent 12 of the schools in the Elgin
U-46 school
district which covers 90 square miles and serves
portions of 11
communities in the northwest suburbs of Chicago in
Cook, DuPage and Kane
Counties with over 40,000 children in grades
preK-12. They have been
studying about space and scientific activities
aboard the ISS. The
event is planned to have live video streaming. Visit
http://www.gailborden.info/webcast/ariss/ for more
information.
Participants will ask as many of the following
questions as time allows:
1. When do you anticipate the first "kid" going into
space?
2. How long have you been living in the ISS and how
many people can live
there at a time?
3. What do you eat in outer space?
4. Do you have to wear a lot of special equipment
while in space?
5. What are your daily jobs up in space station?
6. In space is it different at day then at night?
7. Do you miss your family? How long do you have to
be away from them?
8. Are you weightless in the ISS and if you are, how
does it feel?
9. Is it hard to stay in space so long?
10. How good are the computers that you use?
11. What made you want to become an Astronaut?
12. How much will the Aercam help with the EVA's
outside the Shuttle and
ISS?
13. How will exploring space now going to help
people my age when we
grow up and what changes could be made in our lives
because you are in
outer space?
14. How do you read in outer space and what books
are you reading now?
15. Is it ever sort of scary or strange being in
space?
16. What do you see on the surface of the moon?
17. What experiments are you currently working on
that will have a
significant impact on man on earth and what have you
discovered so far?
18. Who is your favorite author?
19. What is it like blasting off and being in space?
20. What will you do when you return to Earth?
Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact
can be found at
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact .
Next planned event(s):
1. King Academy, Mount Clemens, Michigan USA, Tue
2007-09-11 16:06 UTC
via N8LC
2. Westbrook Intermediate, Friendswood, Texas USA,
Fri 2007-09-14
18:40:52 UTC via W6SRJ
ARISS is an international educational outreach
program partnering the
participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space
Agency, ESA, CNES,
JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations
from participating
countries.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to
experience the excitement of
Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers
on-board the
International Space Station. Teachers, parents and
communities see,
first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS
can energize
youngsters' interest in science, technology, and
learning. Further
information on the ARISS program is available on the
website
http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the
Radio Amateurs of
Canada).
Thank you & 73,
Kenneth - N5VHO
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Pictures of the Amateur Radio station on the
International Space Station.
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/radiohardware.html
Slow Scan TV:
The Marex Slow Scan TV project, SpaceCam1 was
activated for a few weeks last August using
a
Borrowed Laptop. The amateur radio projects still
do not have a dedicated laptop for the
projects and there are no laptops scheduled for
flight to be used for Amateur Radio usage on
ISS in the foreseeable future.
http://www.marexmg.org/imagessstv/SpaceCamImages1.htm
Marex Future Project Proposals:
Marex is working on keeping ISS accessible and
affordable by keeping it on the air. We have
submitted proposals for a new packet system, which
has been initially approved. We are also
working on other proposals, including proposals to
replace most of the aging hardware with
new state-of-the-art hardware including:
David Clark: (www.davidclark.com)
Manufacturers commercial grade Headsets for quite
listening while using the Amateur Radio
station.
DCI RF filters (www.dci.ca)
Custom designed RF filters to reduce interference to
the Amateur Radio stations (Just think
of the range you get when you put your antenna 240
miles up, that's 1500 miles to the
horizon. You also can hear a lot of interference
too.)
Radio Mailbox: Kantronics KPC-9612 data modem with
built in Mailbox that allows Amateur
radio stations to send and receive messages via the
ISS mail box.
The goal is to keep it simple and kept it on the
air. Your support is always welcome.
School Schedules:
If you want to listen to ISS school schedules on the
145.800, then you should check the ARISS
web page to seen when the next time ISS will be on
the air in your part of the world.
Listeners are encouraged to tune in and listing to
the ARISS School down links.
Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact
can be found at
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact .
Marexmg Web page
http://www.marexmg.org
ARISS Web page and other great Space projects
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
73 Miles WF1F MAREX-MG
Until we meet again
DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F
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