[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-06-15 04:00 UTC

[AJ9N at aol.com]

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-06-15  04:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Simulation contact with John McCrae Secondary High School,  Ottawa, Canada
Contact was successful Mon 2011-06-13 1830-1845 UTC  (***)

Hochtaunusschule, Oberursel, Germany, telebridge via  W6SRJ
Contact was not successful: Tue 2011-06-14 11:49:04 UTC 69 deg  (***)
ARISS is attempting to determine what happened.  (***)

Nankan 4th Elementary School, Nankanmachi, Tamanagun,  Kumamoto, Japan
Contact is a go for: Tue 2011-06-21 09:00:25 UTC 44 deg  (***)

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. 

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events  is 646.
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth  school contacts is 629.
Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the  same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 41.  (***)

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.

IN  LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS  
BULLETIN
BOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE:  
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QSL  information may be found at:    
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html    
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's

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

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The  complete schedule page has been updated as of 2011-06-15 04:00 UTC.  
(***)

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 (note change of file  
type)

The successful school list has been updated as of 2011-06-15 03:30  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

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There  have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having 
direct  contacts  on the 40 meter band.  There is no HF radio equipment on  
board 
and available yet.  The HF antenna is mounted.  Sometimes  WA3NAN will 
retransmit shuttle  audio.

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Exp.  27 on orbit
Andrey Borisenko
Aleksandr Samokutyayev
Ronald J. Garan  KF5GPO

Exp. 28 on orbit (***)
Sergey Volkov
Michael E. Fossum  KF5AQG
Satoshi Furukawa  KE5DAW

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