[amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-07-12 00:00 UTC

Tue Jul 12 00:18:50 UTC 2016

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-07-12  00:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

ISS R&D Conference, San Diego, CA, telebridge via  W6SRJ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled  astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Contact is go for: Thu 2016-07-14 16:03:33  UTC 37 deg

Frontiers of Flight Museum's “Moon Day 2016”, Dallas TX,  telebridge via 
W6SRJ 
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be  NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Contact is go for:  Sat 2016-07-16 15:54:09 UTC 88 deg 

YOTA Camp 2016 IARU-R1,  Salzburg, Austria, telebridge via VK4KHZ (***)
The ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be NA1SS (***)
The scheduled astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ  (***)
Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-07-18 10:25:53 UTC 72 deg  (***)

United Space School hosted by the Foundation for  International Space 
Education (FISE), Seabrook TX, telebridge via W6SRJ (***)  
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS (***)
The scheduled  astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ (***)
Contact is a go for: Tue 2016-07-19  14:52:20 UTC 74 deg (***)

Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS  callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Oleg  Skripochka RN3FU
Contact is a go for Thu 2016-07-23 18:50  UTC

Exp. 48 on orbit 
Anatoly Ivanishin 
Kate Rubins  KG5FYJ
Takuya Onishi KF5LKS

Welcome aboard!   
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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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All  ARISS contacts are made via the Ericsson radio unless otherwise  noted.

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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
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with  119
Francesco IKØWGF with  116

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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 8601 date 
and 
time format  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

The  complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-07-12 00:00 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 1067. 
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1032. 
Each  contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of  ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. 

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, South Dakota, 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 2016-07-08 05:00 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.  47 on orbit 
Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Oleg Skripochka RN3FU 
Aleksey  Ovchinin

Exp. 48 on orbit
Anatoly Ivanishin 
Kate Rubins  KG5FYJ
Takuya Onishi  KF5LKS
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73,
Charlie   Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors