[amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-11-30 01:30 UTC

[AJ9N at aol.com]

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-11-30  01:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

S.G.B. De La Salle, Rome, Italy and Istituto Comprensivo  Luigi Nono, Mira, 
Italy, telebridge via W6SRJ
The ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be IRØISS 
The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA  
Contact is a go for: Thu 2017-11-30 08:04:20 UTC 73 deg 
Watch for live  stream at  
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ari-riviera-del-brenta-live

Bishop  Hendricken High School and its sister school, St. Mary Academy - 
Bay View,  Warwick, RI, telebridge via IK1SLD 
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled  to be IRØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli 
Contact is a go  for: Thu 2017-11-30 17:02:09 UTC 61 deg 
Watch for live stream of this event  at tinyurl.com/ISSchat2017 or  
https://livestream.com/accounts/9685187/events/7946215 starting at 16:35 UTC  (***)

School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering  (EETAC), 
Castelldefels, Spain, direct via EG3UPC
The ISS callsign is  presently scheduled to be OR4ISS 
The scheduled astronaut is Mark Vande Hei  KG5GNP
Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-12-04 15:10:12 UTC 43  deg

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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.

Listen for the ISS on  the downlink of 145.8Ø  MHz.

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All  ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood 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:  

Francesco IKØWGF with 131
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 124  
Gaston ON4WF with 123
Sergey RV3DR with  100

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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 2017-11-30 01:30 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
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt

Total  number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1192. 
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1142. 
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 2017-11-29 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.  52 on orbit
Randy Bresnik
Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA
Sergey  Ryazanskiy

Exp. 53 on orbit
Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP
Alexander  Misurkin
Joe Acaba  KE5DAR

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