[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2014-08-12 18:30 UTC

Tue Aug 12 18:31:56 UTC 2014

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2014-08-12  18:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Canada Science and Technology Museum Summer Day Camps,  Ottawa, ON, Canada, 
telebridge via IK1SLD
Contact is a go for: Wed 2014-08-13  17:18:49 UTC 65  deg

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>From  2014-11-10 to 2014-12-07, there will be no US Operational Segment 
(USOS) hams on  board ISS.  So any schools contacts during this period will be 
conducted by  the ARISS Russia  team.

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ARISS  is requesting listener reports for the above contacts.  Due to 
issues with  the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the 
Ericsson radio  is going to be used for these contacts.  ARISS thanks everyone 
in advance  for their assistance.  Feel free to send your reports to 
aj9n at amsat.org or  aj9n at aol.com.

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ARISS  is requesting listener reports for the above contacts.  Due to 
issues with  the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the 
Ericsson radio  is going to be used for these contacts.  ARISS thanks everyone 
in advance  for their assistance.  Feel free to send your reports to 
aj9n at amsat.org or  aj9n at aol.com.

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Several  of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and 
not being able  to get in.  That has now been changed to  
http://www.ariss.org/

Note that there are links to other ARISS  websites from this  site.

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Looking  for something new to do?  How about receiving DATV from the ISS?   
If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete  
details.  Look for the buttons indicating Ham  Video.                               

http://www.ariss-eu.org/    
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ARISS  congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 
schools:  

Gaston ON4WF with 117 
Francesco IKØWGF with 103
Satoshi  7M3TJZ with  103

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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  Out of date 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  2014-08-12 18:30 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 916. 
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 895. 
Each  contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of  ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.

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 2014 has already closed.  
Look for the window for first half 2015  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, 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.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html 

ISS callsigns:  DPØISS,  NA1SS, OR4ISS,  RSØISS

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The  successful school list has been updated as of 2014-08-06 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

https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415
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Exp.  39/40 on orbit
Steve Swanson 
Aleksander Skvortsov
Oleg  Artemyev

Exp. 40/41 on orbit
Maxim Suraev
Gregory Wiseman  KF5LKT
Alexander Gerst  KF5ONO

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