[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2012-06-25 17:30 UTC

Mon Jun 25 10:46:54 PDT 2012

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2012-06-25  17:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

International Student Forum Slavic Commonwealth 2012, Sochi  (Dagomys), 
Russia, direct via RW3W/6
Contact was successful Sat 2012-06-23  18:10 UTC (***)

Ruzaevsky Polytechnic College, Mordovia, Russia,  direct via UB4UAD
Contact was successful Sun 2012-06-24 14:05 UTC  (***)

Virginia Air and Space, Hampton, VA, direct via  KE4ZXW
Contact is a go for: Tue 2012-06-26 18:22:29 UTC 54  deg

2012 STEM Summit, Dallas, TX, telebridge via K6DUE
Contact  is a go for: Thu 2012-06-28 18:11:28 UTC 36 deg

Cirqiniq Summer  Camp, Kuujjuaq, Quebec (Nunavik), Canada, telebridge via 
K6DUE (***)
Contact  is a go for: Wed 2012-07-04 14:23:59 UTC 28 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. 
All  dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date and 
time  format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth  school events is 733. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of  ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 716. (***)
Each contact may have  multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported  terrestrial contacts is 44.

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 window for contacts during the second  half of 2012 has already closed.  
Look for the window for first half 2013  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, 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 2012-06-25 17:30 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

The successful  school list has been updated as of 2012-06-25 17:30 UTC.  
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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

ARISS School  Contacts
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415

Successful  ARISS  contacts
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?OBJID=412218000000023448
Additional  Zoho links may be found at 
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.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.  30/31 on orbit
Oleg Kononenko RN3DX
Donald R. Pettit KD5MDT
André  Kuipers PI9ISS

Exp. 31/32 on orbit
Gennady Padalka RN3DT
Joe  Acaba KE5DAR
Sergey  Revin

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