[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-02-09 07:00 UTC

Fri Feb 8 23:10:06 PST 2013

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-02-09  07:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, telebridge via  IK1SLD
Contact was not successful (see comments below): Fri 2013-02-08  20:07:32 
UTC 43 deg (***)
ARISS is attempting to understand what issues the  Kenwood radio is having. 
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Special thanks to Chris for making  this contact happen in spite of the 
technical issues.  Congratulations to  The Hospital for Sick Children! (***)

Overall, the Hospital  opportunity was a success in that it allowed the 
students to interact with Chris  Hadfield and get their questions answered 
through the IP phone, but the ARISS  amateur radio downlink was extremely weak, 
only allowing 1 question to be  answered near the station closest approach.  
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Yokosuka Elementary School, Tokai, Japan, direct  via 8N2TOKAI
Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-02-09 09:57:10 UTC 32 deg
ARISS  is requesting listener reports for this contact.  Due to issues with 
the  Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson 
radio is  going to be used for this contact.  ARISS thanks everyone in 
advance for  their assistance. (***)

Breadalbane Academy, Aberfeldy, United  Kingdom, telebridge via W6SRJ (***)
Contact is a go for: Tue 2013-02-12  09:22:57 UTC 26 deg (***)

Chief Peguis Jr. High, Winnipeg,  Manitoba, Canada, telebridge via VK5ZAI 
(***)
Contact is a go for: Wed  2013-02-13 19:47:43 UTC 55 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  Out of date 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
The complete schedule page has been updated as of  2013-02-09 07:00 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

Total number  of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 789.
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 772.
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  successful school list has been updated as of 2013-02-03 23:30  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.  33/34 on orbit
Oleg Novitskiy
Kevin Ford KF5GPP
Evgeny  Tarelkin

Exp. 34/35 on orbit
Chris Hadfield  KC5RNJ/VA3OOG
Roman Romanenko
Tom Marshburn  KE5HOC

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