[amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-28 19:30 UTC

[AJ9N at aol.com]

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-28  19:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Frederick W. Harnett Middle School, Blackstone,  Massachusetts, telebridge 
via K6DUE (***)
The ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be NA1SS (***)
The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI  (***)
Contact is a go for: Tue 2016-01-05 17:42:06 UTC 81 deg  (***)

Exp. 44 now back on earth (***)
Oleg Kononenko  RN3DX
Kimiya Yui KG5BPH
Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS
Congratulations to all  3!  Job well done!

Exp. 46 on orbit (***)
Tim Kopra  KE5UDN
Timothy Peake KG5BVI
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
Welcome  aboard!

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>From  2015-12-20 to 2016-01-04, there will be no US Operational Segment 
(USOS)
hams  on board ISS.  So any schools contacts during this period will be 
conducted  by the ARISS Russia  team.

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ARISS  is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts.   
ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance.  Feel free to  send 
your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com.   

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Several  of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and 
not being  able to get in.  That has now been changed to  
http://www.ariss.org/

Note that there are links to other ARISS  websites from this  site.

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Looking  for something new to do?  How about receiving DATV from the  ISS?  
 
If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for  complete 
details.  Look for the buttons indicating Ham  Video.                       
      

http://www.ariss-eu.org/    

If you need some  assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to 
provide some  insight.  Contact Kerry at  kbanke at sbcglobal.net
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ARISS  congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 
 
schools:  

Gaston ON4WF with 121
Francesco IKØWGF with 115  
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 114  

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The  webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy.  Out of date  
webpages were removed and new ones have been added.  If there are  
additional 
ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me  know.

Note, all times are approximate.  It is recommended that you  do your own 
orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before  the listed 
time. 
All dates and  times listed follow International  Standard ISO 8061 date 
and 
time format  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

The  complete schedule page has been updated as of 2015-12-12 03:00 UTC.  
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Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and  
questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and  
instructions for any contact that may be streamed live.    
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf

Total number of  ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1015.
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 980. 
Each  contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of  ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.

A complete year by year  breakdown of the contacts may be found in the  
file.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf

Please  feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are  needed.

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The  following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: 
Arkansas,  Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 
Wyoming,  American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin  
Islands.

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QSL  information may be found at:   
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html  

ISS callsigns:  DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS,  RSØISS

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The  successful school list has been updated as of 2015-12-09 07:30 UTC.  

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf

Frequency   chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing 
Doppler   correction  as of 2005-07-29 04:00  UTC
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction
.rtf

Listing  of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30  UTC.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf

Check  out the Zoho reports of the ARISS  contacts

https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415
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Exp.  43/44 on orbit
Scott Kelly
Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF

Exp. 44  now back on earth (***)
Oleg Kononenko RN3DX
Kimiya Yui KG5BPH
Kjell  Lindgren KO5MOS

Exp. 45 on orbit
Sergey Volkov  RU3DIS

Exp. 46 on orbit (***)
Tim Kopra KE5UDN
Timothy Peake  KG5BVI
Yuri Malenchenko  RK3DUP

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73,
Charlie   Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors