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ARISS News Release no. 16-02
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Please find attached ARISS News Release no. 16-02 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-03-10 21:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-03-10 21:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC), Grand Forks, North Dakota, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact was successful: Thu 2016-03-10 19:07:08 UTC 58 deg (***) Live stream video for the event can be accessed at: http://realmedia.aero.und.edu/ndsgc.html This was ARISS contact number 1000 and the 84th ARISS contact for W6SRJ. Congrats to all! (***) **************************************************************************** ** Yes, indeed, this was ARISS contact #1000. I had the luck of the draw to be the control operator for ARISS contact #1 in Burbank, IL back on December 21, 2000. Now once again, the luck of the draw has allowed me to be the mentor and moderator for this 1000th contact. Here is to the second 1000 contacts. 73, Charlie AJ9N One of the ARISS Operation Team Mentors **************************************************************************** ** Booker T. Washington Senior High, Miami, Florida, direct via W4SVI The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-03-14 15:48:48 UTC 52 deg Walter Jackson Elementary, Decatur, Alabama, direct via N8DEU The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-03-18 13:53:49 UTC 69 deg (***) **************************************************************************** ** The next window to submit a proposal for an upcoming contact is now open. The window is open from 2016-02-15 to 2016-04-15 and would be for contacts between 2017-01-01 and 2017-06-30. Check out the ARISS website http://www.ariss.org/ or the ARRL website http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact for full details. **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Ericsson radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** 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 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 116 **************************************************************************** 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 2016-03-10 21:00 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 1035. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1000. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. 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, 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 2016-03-10 21:00 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. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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AMSAT @ ScienceCity in Tucson AZ (12-13 March 2016)
by Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hi! I will be part of the booth for the University of Arizona's radio club (K7UAZ) for this weekend's ScienceCity science fair, on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson AZ. This is a two-day event, on Saturday and Sunday (12 and 13 March 2016). The event will be open from 9.30am to 5.30pm (1630 to 0030 UTC) each day. More information about the ScienceCity event is available at: http://sciencecity.arizona.edu/ I was part of the K7UAZ booth for the Saturday of last year's ScienceCity event, where over 60000 people came through the campus. This year, I wanted to attend for both days, since last year's event saw an estimated total of over 130000 people attending both days. As part of the K7UAZ activity, I will demonstrate satellite operating during each day. For these demonstrations, I will use the radio club's K7UAZ call sign. The University of Arizona campus, in the center of Tucson, in grid DM42. K7UAZ will also be on the HF bands each day. If anyone works K7UAZ and wishes to receive a QSL card, please look up K7UAZ on QRZ.com for the mailing address to send your QSL request with SASE. K7UAZ isn't currently participating in online QSL services like LOTW or eQSL. For up-to-the-minute news of my plans to work different passes, and photos from ScienceCity and the K7UAZ booth, please follow my @WD9EWK Twitter feed. For those who don't use Twitter and want to see my tweets, you can visit http://twitter.com/WD9EWK using a web browser. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

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FW: run as administrator
by David Pykett 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

HI Bob Right click on the setup.exe file once you have unzipped it into a folder and select run as Administrator, this resolved it for me on Win 10 PC and also on Windows Vista so hopefully it will work for you. I read through the instructions on using SatPC32 a number of times before I had it configured correctly, but now its so easy your virtually right on frequency every time on every Satellite, it takes time and effort to set up but well worth it in the end. 73 Dave G0IIQ From: Bob- W7LRD<mailto:w7lrd@comcast.net> Sent: 09 March 2016 22:43 To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org<mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-bb] run as administrator trying to set up Satpc32 on a win7 computer-can not get passed the "must run as administrator" part. Being "digitally challenged" how do I get it to run? 73 Bob W7LRD _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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run as administrator
by David Pykett 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

HI Bob Nit quite sure what happened to my email I think it may have gone direct to you? Right click on the setup.exe file once you have unzipped it into a folder and select run as Administrator, this resolved it for me on Win 10 PC and also on Windows Vista so hopefully it will work for you. I read through the instructions on using SatPC32 a number of times before I had it configured correctly, but now its so easy your virtually right on frequency every time on every Satellite, it takes time and effort to set up but well worth it in the end. 73 Dave G0IIQ From: Bob- W7LRD Sent: 09 March 2016 22:43 To: amsat-bb(a)amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] run as administrator trying to set up Satpc32 on a win7 computer-can not get passed the "must run as administrator" part. Being "digitally challenged" how do I get it to run? 73 Bob W7LRD _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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run as administrator
by Bob- W7LRD 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

trying to set up Satpc32 on a win7 computer-can not get passed the "must run as administrator" part. Being "digitally challenged" how do I get it to run? 73 Bob W7LRD

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-03-09 21:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-03-09 21:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC), Grand Forks, North Dakota, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-03-10 19:07:08 UTC 58 deg (***) Live stream video for the event can be accessed at: http://realmedia.aero.und.edu/ndsgc.html (***) Booker T. Washington Senior High, Miami, Florida, direct via W4SVI The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-03-14 15:48:48 UTC 52 deg Walter Jackson Elementary, Decatur, Alabama, direct via N8DEU The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-03-17 14:46:07 UTC 30 deg **************************************************************************** ** The next window to submit a proposal for an upcoming contact is now open. The window is open from 2016-02-15 to 2016-04-15 and would be for contacts between 2017-01-01 and 2017-06-30. Check out the ARISS website http://www.ariss.org/ or the ARRL website http://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact for full details. **************************************************************************** ** 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. **************************************************************************** *** All ARISS contacts are made via the Ericsson radio unless otherwise noted. **************************************************************************** *** 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 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 116 Francesco IKØWGF with 116 **************************************************************************** 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 2016-03-09 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 1034. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 999. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. 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, 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 2016-03-08 23:00 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. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Satellite op AC0RA tops '15 ARRL August UHF contest
by Clayton Coleman 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

The results of the ARRL August 2015 UHF contest have been out for a while. This article, with short description of AC0RA/R's winning effort, is now posted online: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ContestResults/2015/2015%20ARRL%20UHF%20Cont… or shortened URL: http://bit.ly/1U3M8lL Wyatt, AC0RA, is a life member of AMSAT and a very active portable operator here in the US on satellites. 73 Clayton W5PFG

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W5PFG/P - EM24tq (Arkansas) March 14-18
by Clayton Coleman 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Next week I'll be operating satellites from EM24 near Mena, Arkansas. Thanks to KG5CCI's recent operations, this grid is not as rare as it once was for many. I will casually operate satellite passes as convenient to my leisure schedule. If someone needs this grid confirmed via paper card or Logbook of the World, I'd be glad to schedule QSO's. Send any requests via email. I will post updates via Twitter @w5pfg during my trip. 73 Clayton W5PFG

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Upcoming ARISS contact with North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC), Grand Forks, North Dakota
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC), Grand Forks, North Dakota on 10 March. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:08 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and W6SRJ. The contact should be audible over the west coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. The University of North Dakota (UND) is located in Grand Forks, a vibrant eastern North Dakota college town of 53,000 located on the Red River of the North. Approximately 15,000 students are enrolled in over 225 fields of undergraduate and graduate study at UND. The beautiful 549-acre wooded campus is a unique blend of classic ivy-covered halls, high-tech complexes, and research centers. The University has earned an international reputation for its academic and research programs. In the early 1980s, John D. Odegard, the Dean of the College of Aerospace Sciences, invited Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, to come to UND to help organize a space education program within the college. Aldrin's contributions included recommending the appointment of Dr. David Webb, a member of the 1985-1986 Presidential Commission on Space, to design the space studies program and to serve as the first Chair of the Department. In 1986, Dr. David Webb initiated the founding of the Department of Space Studies as an integral part of the UND College of Aerospace Sciences. Today, the Department of Space Studies has approximately 25 M.S. students on campus and more than 100 students in the distance program. Nearly 700 Master of Science Degrees in Space Studies have been awarded since the program's inception in 1987. Space Studies graduates have careers in a variety of different space-related disciplines including government, business, science, law, medicine, education, military, and public relations. In fall of 2012, the 25th anniversary year of the Space Studies Department, the Ph.D. program in Aerospace Sciences was established in collaboration with the Department of Aviation. The Department of Space Studies is also headquarters to two state-wide NASA-funded programs: the ND NASA EPSCoR, which is aimed at enhancing NASA-relevant research capabilities in the state and the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium, which promotes STEM education at both K-12 and college levels in North Dakota through "hands on" projects and provides student summer internships at NASA centers, scholarships, and research fellowships. Leading up to the ARISS call, members of the Space Grant team and college student volunteers made several visits to classrooms to get students excited about the event. They worked with 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders at Emerado Elementary in Emerado, ND, 2nd graders at Highland Elementary in Crookston, MN, 3rd graders at Century Elementary in Grafton, ND, 4th graders at Century Elementary in Grand Forks, ND, and 5th graders at Discover Elementary in Grand Forks, ND. These hands-on activities included building and launching rockets, building and testing parachutes like the ones used on NASA's Orion capsule, designing and testing neutrally buoyant objects, and working in teams to discover and explore new planets like NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. These students along with a few more K-12 classrooms, and University of North Dakota students will be attending the event early March. The questions will come from students in kindergarten all the way through graduate school. Many of the students attending the event come from smaller rural communities, so it is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in such an event. Some families from the area will be attending as well, along with the winning 10th grade team from Space Grant's high altitude balloon competition last fall, as one of the prizes for the competition was a question slot for a member of the team. There are over 350 students, teachers, and chaperones currently registered for the event. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What do you do for fun on the space station? 2. What activities do you do to keep your muscles strong in micro-gravity? 3. Is it challenging to communicate with astronauts from other countries while working on the space station? 4. What kind of training does an astronaut have to go through and how was your experience? 5. Besides micro-gravity, what experimental conditions does the International Space Station provide that cannot be replicated here on Earth? 6. What was the hardest part of becoming an astronaut and what helped you get past this obstacle? 7. What advice would you give to students, such as myself, who wish to work for NASA one day? 8. What features of North Dakota, such as lakes, snow cover, or oil flares, can you see from the International Space Station? 9. Do you feel disconnected from the real-world whenever you hear about any major news story? If so, how do you find ways to reconnect? 10. We recently learned that astronauts make regular journal entries for research purposes. Do you find this exercise beneficial to your time on station? 11. What is your current interaction with medical professionals, regarding your health in space? 12. If you've seen or read "The Martian", how realistic was it compared to how things actually are on the space station? 13. Have you always wanted to go to space and become an astronaut? If so, what inspired you? 14. How often do you go on space walks and do you ever get scared? 15. What kind of experiments are you conducting on the space station? 16. We learned about Scott Kelley's year in space. How long have you been onboard and would you consider staying for a full year? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Booker T. Washington Senior High, Miami, Florida, direct via W4SVI ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Mon 2016-03-14 15:48:48 UTC ABOUT ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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