[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-09-13 03:30 UTC

Mon Sep 12 21:00:16 PDT 2011

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-09-13 03:30  UTC 
Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events: 
Università degli Studi di  Foggia, Foggia, Italy, telebridge via  IK1SLD 
Contact is a go for: Wed  2011-09-14 08:38:23 UTC 52 deg 
Watch for live video streaming at http://www.media.unifg.it/iss/ 
Training session for ESC (Euro  Space Camp) in Belgium, direct via ON4ESC  
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Contact is a go for Tue  2011-09-21 13:15-13:45 UTC (***) 
Contact should be on the IRLP 9010  Discovery Reflector (main connection)  
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Training session for Manhattan Challenger Learning Center,  New York, NY, 
direct via N2SJ  (***) 
Contact is a go for Tue 2011-09-21 13:50-14:20 UTC  (***) 
Contact should be on the IRLP 9010  Discovery Reflector (main connection)  
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Training session for Challenger  Learning Center of Indianapolis, 
Indianapolis, Indiana, direct via K9CMM (***) 
Contact is a go for Tue 2011-09-21 14:30-15:00 UTC  (***) 
Contact should be on the IRLP 9010  Discovery Reflector (main connection)  
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Training session for Challenger  Learning Center of Alaska, Kenai, AK,  
direct via KL7XJ  (***) 
Contact is a go for Tue 2011-09-21 15:30-16:00 UTC  (***) 
Contact should be on the IRLP 9010  Discovery Reflector (main connection)  
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Kiroli Elementary, West Monroe, Louisiana, direct via AE5V  (***) 
Contact is a go for: Thu  2011-09-22 18:12:35 UTC 54 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 667. 
Each school counts as 1  event. 
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth  school contacts is 650. 
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. 
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US  Hams, don’t forget that there is a new process for US school  
proposals.  For US schools to have  an ARISS contact, they must fill out a proposal, 
submit it to NASA, and see if  they are approved or not.  Once a  school is 
approved and put on the list, an ARISS mentor will be assigned to  assist 
the school.    
NASA will have two open windows a  year for schools to submit a proposal.  
The first window for contacts during the first half of 2012 has already  
closed.  Look for the second window  for second half 2012 contacts later this 
year.  You must go through NASA to get the  proposal material.  Contact 
Teaching From Space, a NASA Education office, at JSC-TFS-ARISS at mail.nasa.gov or 
by calling them at (281)  244-2320. 
The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS  contact: 
Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware,  Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota,  North Dakota, 
Rhode  Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia,  Wyoming, American  
Samoa, Guam, Northern  Marianas Islands, and the Virgin  Islands.  
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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 

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The complete  schedule page has been updated as of 2011-09-13 03:30 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 (note change of  file 
type)

The successful school list has been updated as of  2011-09-11 02:00 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

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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