[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2012-09-07 17:30 UTC

Fri Sep 7 10:30:54 PDT 2012

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2012-09-07  17:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Gymnasium Michelstadt, Michelstadt, Germany, direct via  DKØDK
Contact was successful: Fri 2012-09-07 08:52:29 UTC 56 deg  (***)

Tara Anglican School, North Parramatta, New South Wales,  Australia, 
telebridge via ON4ISS
Contact is a go for: Sun 2012-09-09 08:50:30  UTC via 68 deg

Maroochydore State School, Maroochydore, Queensland,  Australia, telebridge 
via VK4KHZ
Contact is a go for: Wed 2012-09-12 07:03:59  UTC 76 deg

NASA Goddard Child Development Center, Greenbelt, MD,  direct via K6DUE
Contact is a go for: Thu 2012-09-13 16:43:41 UTC 30  deg

Burns Sci-Tech Charter School, Oak Hill, FL, direct via  KK4KTJ
Contact is a go for: Thu 2012-09-13 18:21:36 UTC 42 deg
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  Out of date 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 8061 date and 
time  format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth  school events is 748. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of  ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 731. (***)
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 2012-09-07 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 2012-09-07 17:30 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

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

Exp. 32/33 on orbit
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
Sunita  Williams KD5PLB
Akihiko Hoshide  KE5DNI

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