[amsat-bb] Thursday's ARISS contact

[Steve Kristoff]

Good answers. Thank you, gentlemen!
Steve AI9IN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Spasojevich" <johnag9d at gmail.com>
Cc: "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>; "Steve Kristoff" <skristof at etczone.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Thursday's ARISS contact


> Steve,
>
> Typically the audio from a telebridge contact is carried on the AMSAT
> Echolink server and on the web.  Direct contacts in the US are a little
> more tricky to get the audio out from the school via phone patch or skype.
> Also it's felt to add more to the stress level of the ground crew, we'd
> rather have them make a good contact for their local use. I've generally
> added that capability to the directs I've done personally and I'll tell 
> you
> its a good half a days work to do it. At one school I has 150 feet of Cat5
> strung around the gym to get to the stage and on another we tried the
> Iphone app. Never got any reports so I don;t know how well that worked. we
> were lucky to get a signal in that school. The gear we used was the same
> from school to school, which is not the norm.
>
>
> 73,
> John - AG9D
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Dave Taylor <dave.w8aas at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Probably because the person who maintains that site is on vacation and 
>> not
>> due back till later this week.
>>
>> The contact in Grand Rapids is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22 at 17:15
>> UTC.  It is direct, so the downlink will be audible in that part of the
>> country.  I have not heard if the school will be streaming it.  This has
>> been announced on amsat-bb, with school info and the questions to be 
>> asked.
>>
>> There is also a direct contact in Dearborn the following week, on 
>> Tuesday,
>> Oct 27 at 16:02 UTC.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> > On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:13 PM, Steve Kristoff <skristof at etczone.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyone know why the upcoming ARISS contact in Michigan is not listed on
>> the ARISS.org website? I was trying to tell a friend about and I 
>> suggested
>> he check out the website. The website is not up-to-date. Kind of
>> embarrassing, I would think.
>> > Is the contact going to be streamed live on any websites?
>> >
>> > Steve Kristoff
>> > AI9IN
>> > EM79ji Oldenburg, IN
>> > skristof at etczone.com
>> >
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