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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-09-12 20:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-09-12 20:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Participants of international CAMP students "Slavic Commonwealth" Sochi, Russia, direct via R2015SS (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled cosmonaut is Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Contact was successful 2015-08-29 11:15 UTC (***) New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, NM, direct via N5MMI The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Contact is a go for: Wed 2015-09-16 15:48:50 UTC 43 deg **************************************************************************** ** Interested in hosting an ARISS contact? The window is now open from 2015-09-01 to 2015-11-01. These proposals will be for school contacts during the second half of 2016. Go to http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact or http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html for full details. To help organizations in preparing their proposals, the ARISS Program Coordinator will offer hour-long online information sessions. These are designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process and offer an opportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session is not required, it is strongly encouraged. These will be offered Thursday, September 17, at 2000 UTC; Tuesday, September 22, at 2000 UTC, and Wednesday, September 30, at 2300 UTC. Advance registration is necessary. Email ARISS (ariss(a)arrl.org) to sign up for an information session. **************************************************************************** ** >From 2015-12-20 to 2016-01-04, 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. **************************************************************************** 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(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. **************************************************************************** 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. **************************************************************************** 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/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 114 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 109 **************************************************************************** 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 2015-09-12 20:00 UTC. (***) 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 993. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 958. (***) 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** The successful school list has been updated as of 2015-09-12 20:00 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 **************************************************************************** Exp. 43/44 on orbit Gennady Padalka RN3DT Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF Exp. 44 on orbit Oleg Kononenko RN3DX Kimiya Yui KG5BPH Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS Exp. 45 and Taxi on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS Andreas Mogensen KG5GCZ Aidyn Aimbetov **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Fall Grid Trip VE3/VE2
by R.T.Liddy 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

I plan to leave for my Fall Grid Trip on Thu 9/17 which willtake me through northern Ontario and Quebec. The first day will take me from my home QTH in EN91 toNorth Bay, ON, FN06. On Fri 9/18, I'll go through FN07 onmy way to Timmins, ON, EN98. On Sat 9/19, I'll do moreEN98 and hopefully get up to EN99. Sunday 9/19 will take me through FN08 and over to Val d'Or,QC, in FN18. On Mon 9/21, I'll go through FN17 and 16 andend up in Mont Tremblat, QC, FN26. On Tue 9/22, I go toWatertown, NY, FN24 and home to EN91 on Wed 9/23. I usually work FO29 10-15 KHz up from centerband and SO50if I can squeeze my Call into the fray. Not ever knowing whatMode AO7 will be in, I might give it a try. Never been on AO73. My hope is to give as many new Grids out to everyone as possiblewhile seeing things few people see. Check out my QRZ.com info. 73/GL, Bob K8BL

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gating PSAT
by Sil 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi, I sometimes see received packets (like the one below) that show as gated to the net by my Sgate, but do not make it to findu (http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi). Is there anything I can do, change, alter, or configure, to increase the chances of the packet making it to the findu site? The gate is currently running on an old Windows machine and the gating is completed by UIView. Sil - ZL2CIA <Time and date is UT> 2015-Sep-11 22:18:12 PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,ZL2CIA,I: T#543,855,090,649,857,851,00011100

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Saturday in California...
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Good morning! After a drive of over 300 miles last night, I am in California for today. I will be on the upcoming SO-50 pass around 1427 UTC from grid DM14 in Yucaipa CA, then back on the road to the ARRL Southwest Division Convention in Torrance to see what's there and meet up with some local satellite operators. I may be on one or two FO-29 passes from the convention, which is in grid DM03. Please call WD9EWK if you hear me. The convention is in that "rare" grid DM03. ;-) My APRS track is visible at http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 and updates will be on my Twitter feed. After the convention, it's back on the road for the drive home. Any QSOs I make today will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and QSL cards will be available on (E-mail) request. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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CubeSats deploy form ISS at 17th Sep
by Masahiro Arai 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

JAXA announced CubeSats deploy from ISS with J-SSOD at 17th Sep. CubeSat name is not shown on the announce. However, NASA's ISS On- Orbit Status Report 09/09/15 shows the followings; JAXA-Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD) #4 Install: Kelly installed the J-SSOD#4 on the Slide Table with the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform (MPEP) attached. The J-SSOD #4 has two satellites that will be deployed next week. The first satellite is designed to observe the Ultraviolet (UV) spectrum during the Orionid meteor shower in October. The second satellite, sponsored by the University of Brasilia and the Brazilian government focuses on meteorological data collection. So, the first one must be S-CUBE and the second is SERPENS. SERPENS operates on amateur band. IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination page show Downlink: 145.980MHz 1k2 and 437.365MHz 9k6 S-CUBE seems not operate amateur band. 73 Masa JN1GKZ Tokyo Japan

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Office Closed
by Martha 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

The AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, September 14th. -- 73- Martha

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NBTC to help fund JAISAT satellite + UN ISS CubeSats
by M5AKA 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

NBTC to help fund JAISAT linear transponder satellite project http://amsat-uk.org/2015/09/08/nbtc-to-help-fund-jaisat-satellite-project/ United Nations – ISS CubeSat Deployment http://amsat-uk.org/2015/09/11/united-nations-iss-cubesat-deployment/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ---- AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK ----

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Pope's visit- 9-22-27 Special Event Operators needed
by W2JV 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Hello, Pope Francis will be visiting the US from September 22-27, operations will include all bands and modes. Four unique QSL cards will be available along with a certificate to mark this special and historic event, you can read more about this event on QRZ.com, WM3PEN. In order to receive a QSL card we need to have some special event operators to work some passes. I’m looking for satellite operators that might be available on some passes throughout the event that are based in NY/NJ, DC/Virginia and Philadelphia. If you are interested, let me know and I will provide you with additional information. At this point Paul, N8HM has signed on as one operator in DC, the call sign will be K3P, I will be one NY operator as K2P, I hope we can add many more operators in the locations mentioned to have as many voices in space as we can, thank you. 73, Peter W2JV

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NO-84 psk Beacon
by John Fickes 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Sep-11-2015 starting at 05:41 utc Seemed to be a lot of fading. 0 23 794 242 +11 et r5ee n 0843 30 782 242 +10 ee ¾ W3ADO-5 beaconoe E90L9 u070iOi eeei¾eoW3ADO-5 beacon B 091 78 23 772 248 +16 ireei 73 John W0JW

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XE719SEP on satellites - 19-20 September 2015
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

Hi! Omar XE1AO sent me an e-mail, mentioning that he will be operating as XE719SEP on the satellites on 19-20 September 2015. XE719SEP is a special-event station commemorating the earthquakes that hit Mexico City on those dates in 1985. The "719" in the call sign represents the local time of the first earthquake, 7.19am on 19 September 1985. Officially, the XE719SEP stations will operate until 0040 UTC on 21 September, corresponding to 7.40pm local time on 20 September 1985 - the time of the second massive earthquake. Other operators will use XE719SEP on other bands and modes during this weekend. More information about XE719SEP, in English and Spanish, is available at: http://qrz.com/db/XE719SEP Another page has similar information in Spanish: http://19SEP.puebladx.org A chart with a schedule showing when and where other stations will operate as XE719SEP is at: http://rne.puebladx.org/RNE/SEP19.html The "XE Time" in this chart is the same as Central Daylight Time in the USA and Canada, corresponding to UTC -5. Good luck, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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