[sarex] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2014-12-09 00:00 UTC

Mon Dec 8 22:55:58 UTC 2014

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2014-12-09  00:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Istituto Tecnico Statale  Economico e Tecnologico  “Elena di Savoia” – “
Piero Calamandrei”, Bari, Italy, direct via IZ7EVR and  State Technical 
Institute of Technology Alessandro Volta, Bitonto, Italy, direct  via IZ7EVR (***)
Contact is a go for: Mon 2014-12-15 15:18:40 UTC 44 deg  (***)

For US schools, just a reminder that proposals for  hosting an ARISS 
contact are due December 15, 2014.  

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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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>From  2015-11-05 to 2015-12-06, 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 always glad to receive listener reports for the above 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 always glad to receive listener reports for the above 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 119 
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 106
Francesco  IKØWGF 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  2014-12-09 00:00 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 942.
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 918.
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, ARISS has developed a new process for US school proposals.  Below 
is  information on the new procedure announced 2014-10-17:
Call for  Proposals
Proposal Window October 17 – December 15, 2014
The Amateur Radio  on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is 
seeking formal and  informal education institutions and organizations, 
individually or working  together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew 
member on board the ISS.  ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held 
between May 1, 2015 and  December 31, 2015. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will 
determine the exact  contact dates. To maximize these radio contact 
opportunities, ARISS is looking  for organizations that will draw large numbers of 
participants and integrate the  contact into a well-developed education plan. 
The deadline to submit a  proposal is December 15, 2014.
The Opportunity
Crew members aboard the  International Space Station will participate in 
scheduled Amateur Radio  contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 
minutes in length and allow  students and educators to interact with the 
astronauts through a  question-and-answer session. 
An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication  opportunity via Amateur 
Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space  station and 
classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education  audiences the 
opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to  live and work in 
space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS.  Students also 
will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication,  wireless 
technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human  spaceflight and 
the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS,  organizations must 
demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in contact  dates and times. 
Amateur Radio organizations around the world, NASA, and  space agencies in 
Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe sponsor this educational  opportunity by 
providing the equipment and operational support to enable direct  
communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world via Amateur  Radio. 
In the US, the program is managed by AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite  
Corporation) and ARRL (American Radio Relay League) in partnership with NASA.  
More Information
Interested parties can find more information about the  program at 
www.ariss.org and www.arrl.org/ARISS. More details on expectations,  audience, propo
sal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of  Information 
Sessions are available at www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.  Please direct 
any questions to ariss at arrl.org. 
It is anticipated that  schools will be informed by 2015-01-31 as to 
whether their proposal was selected  or  not.
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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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QSL  information may be found at:   
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 2014-11-13 18:00 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.  41/42 on orbit
Barry Wilmore 
Alexander Samokutyayev
Elena  Serova

Exp. 42/43 on orbit
Terry Virts 
Anton  Shkaplerov
Samantha Cristoforetti  IZØUDF

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