[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-04-06 22:30 UTC

[AJ9N at aol.com]

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-04-06 22:30  UTC 
Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events: 
820 Chris Hadfield Royal  Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Milton, Ontario,  
Canada,  telebridge via LU8YY 
Contact was successful: Sat  2013-04-06 20:25:52 UTC 41 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. 
Sir George Simpson Jr. High,  Albert, AB, Canada, telebridge via  IK1SLD 
Contact is a go for: Tue  2013-04-09 20:00:45 UTC 53 deg 
Innalik School, Inukjuak, Nunavut,  Canada,  telebridge via IK1SLD 
Contact is a go for: Fri  2013-04-12 17:30:20 UTC 36 deg 
Due to continuing Space X  operations, the above times are subject to last 
minute changes or  cancellations. 
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  Out of date  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  2013-04-06 22:30 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

Total number of ARISS ISS to  earth school events is 807. (***) 
Each school counts as 1  event. 
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth  school contacts is 790. (***) 
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, 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  2013-04-06 22:30 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. 34/35 on  orbit 
Chris Hadfield KC5RNJ/VA3OOG 
Roman Romanenko 
Tom Marshburn  KE5HOC 
Exp. 35/36 on  orbit 
Pavel  Vinogradov RV3BS 
Aleksandr  Misurkin 
Christopher  J. Cassidy KF5KDR 
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73,
Charlie Sufana  AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors