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Fw: [W5SJZ] Notice: GOM Keith Pugh, W5IU/SK
by Jay Cox 24 May '19

24 May '19

Rest in Peace, Keith Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone Begin forwarded message: On Friday, May 24, 2019, 1:12 PM, jlwesty(a)sbcglobal.net [W5SJZ] <W5SJZ(a)yahoogroups.com> wrote: It is with a heavy heart that I contact the members here to notify you about Keith Pugh. Mr. Keith Pugh, W5IU has passed away at his home here in Fort Worth, Texas. Keith was so involved in the Fort Worth/Metroplex community that his passing will leave a gigantic hole in all his organizations. It is great sadness and I can only say May God Bless and Keep Keith, may he know the Peace of Jesus Christ. 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Re: [amsat-bb] Boomset recommendations
by Jim Jerzycke 24 May '19

24 May '19

I have a Radio Sport RS-2 that I use with my FT-847 and FT-1000D. A bit expensive, but excellent build quality, fit-and-finish, and they sound great. Best headset I've ever owned, and I've had quite a few! 73, Jim KQ0EA -----Original Message----- From: GEO Badger via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> To: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org> Sent: Fri, May 24, 2019 6:27 pm Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Boomset recommendations I'm very partial to Heil. It may be considered pricey but it works well. --- Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side. GEO http://www.w3ab.org Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. On Friday, May 24, 2019, 11:13:03 AM PDT, Roger - W7TZ via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: I'm using an IC-9100 for a variety of ham related functions and need a new boomset. What does the satellite community like? Thanks, 73, Roger W7TZ CN83ia Grid Busters w7tz.webs.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ 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: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

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Boomset recommendations
by Roger - W7TZ 24 May '19

24 May '19

I'm using an IC-9100 for a variety of ham related functions and need a new boomset. What does the satellite community like? Thanks, 73, Roger W7TZ CN83ia Grid Busters w7tz.webs.com

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-05-24 19:00 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 24 May '19

24 May '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-05-24 19:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Cartago and San Carlos, Costa Rica, telebridge via IK1SLD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 16:31:25 UTC 34 deg Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch for a live stream at www.ariotti.com Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC 81 deg Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 20:18:50 UTC 48 deg Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is a go for Wed 2019-06-05 07:50 UTC Watch for these upcoming events: MAI-75 SSTV Event: Wed 2019-06-05 12:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC MAI-75 SSTV Event: Thu 2019-06-06 11:30 UTC to 15:30 UTC 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 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-05-24 19:00 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 http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-05-20 17:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ****************************************************************************** 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. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood 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? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. (***) 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 The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 135 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 114 **************************************************************************** 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. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1307. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1250. 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: 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 **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 24 May '19

24 May '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on 27 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 20:18 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 VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English and French. Story: Walter Murray Collegiate is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Along with its many standard course, it has some excellent engineering/ electronics courses and a very extensive hands-on "shop" class which involves machinery, welding, carpentry, car repair etc. There is also very busy "tech" club that is involved in robotics as well as a "science" club that this year was very excited about the "Tomatosphere" project. Contact day with David will be very busy. We will, have on site, the University of Saskatchewan engineering faculty represented by USST, the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team. USST will be demonstrating 2 of their projects that day. One team will represent and demonstrate CubeSatÕs and the other team will engage all the students with the Rover project. As well RASC Saskatoon will be there will solar scopes and will be in the auditorium with demonstration telescopes. As well ARISS/ SARC will have their amateur radio equipment for all the students. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. How do relations between countries on Earth impact relationships between astronauts of different nationalities? 2. What did you bring with you to space? 3. What are your next goals after you return to Earth? 4. As technology develops and it becomes safer and more economically efficient to send unmanned flights to space, what argument would you give in favour of continued investment in manned space flight? 5. Combien de force ressentiez-vous lorsque vous quittez l'atmosphère et échappez l'attraction gravitationnelle de la Terre? Translation: How much force do you feel when you are leaving the atmosphere and escaping the gravitational pull of Earth? 6. What do you think is the most interesting experiment you are working on currently on the ISS and why is it important? 7. Why do you think space travel is important in an age where problems like climate change exist? 8. With climate change growing on Earth, do you think the rate of space debris will cause a problem in the future? If so, what could be done about it? 9. How can people not interested in actually going to space help support Canadian space programs? Is there anything random civilians, high school students, etc. can do to help explore the galaxy? 10. Should we be considering the legal and economic impact of colonizing Mars or is it too early to consider at this time? 11. What do you think is the future of space exploration? Do you have ideas of what it might look like? 12. In space, you have to be very careful with the resources you are offered. How can you apply this to being more eco-friendly on Earth? 13. What is the most memorable view you remember seeing when you were traveling to, or actually at, the ISS? 14. What's something that you never realized until going into space? 15. Are the computers and parts of the ISS still from when it was sent into space or were they upgraded? 16. I know you have changed career paths a lot. What was the most valuable thing you learned while finding your passion as an astronaut? 17. What utensils are used to write in space? Can you use pens and pencils? If not, what do you use? 18. Do you think more resources should be spent on saving Earth or leaving it? 19. How has going into space and the experience of observing the universe from such a surreal perspective contributed to your opinion on the existence of life in other places? 20. Is medicine different in space? If so, how? 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. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC 2. Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 16:31:25 UTC 34 deg Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch for a live stream at www.ariotti.com 3. Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC 81 deg 4. Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is a go for Wed 2019-06-05 07:50 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), the ISS National Lab and 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 public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.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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KI7UNJ and KI7UXT - ROVE CN83/CN84/CN85/CN86/CN76
by KI7UNJ Tucker 24 May '19

24 May '19

Good Afternoon, On my way to and during SeaPac Hamfest, I (KI7UNJ) will be doing some roving to CN83/CN84/CN85/CN86/CN76. KI7UXT will be meeting up for some tag team roving shenanigans starting with the late night passes on Friday. See below for schedule. Track KI7UNJ via APRS https://aprs.fi/ki7unj-9 Friday May 31st Passes will be: KI7UNJ AOS SAT GRID 1716Z AO-92 CN83 1745Z AO-91 CN83 1849Z AO-92 CN83 1917Z AO-91 CN83 2054Z AO-91 CN84 (or CN85) 2356Z SO-50 CN86 KI7UNJ and KI7UXT AOS SAT GRID 0137Z SO-50 CN86 or CN76 (hopefully line) 0357Z AO-92 CN86 or CN76 (hopefully line) 0528Z AO-92 CN86 or CN76 (hopefully line) On Saturday, June 1st I will be doing two FM Sat Demos at SeaPac Hamfest KI7UNJ AOS SAT GRID 1827Z AO-92 CN85 1939Z AO-91 CN85 Saturday Night: Please keep an eye out on twitter for passes it's up in the air! https://twitter.com/ki7unj and https://twitter.com/ki7uxt If you're going to be at SeaPac let us know! We will be monitoring the 2 talk-in freqs starting Friday night. KI7UNJ and KI7UXT -- Casey Tucker KI7UNJ https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ https://www.qrz.com/db/KI7UNJ http://bit.do/ki7unj <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.do/ki7unj&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=…>

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Upcoming ARISS contact for Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 24 May '19

24 May '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada on 27 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:44 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 OR4ISS and ON4ISS. The contact should be audible over Belgium and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Mildred Hall, a Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8 School, is located in the heart of downtown Yellowknife with Frame Lake and its beautiful trail almost sitting in its backyard. It houses 271 students from the ages of 4 to 14 with very diverse backgrounds and cultures. Almost 80% of the students are Indigenous, so it boasts programming that is relevant to hands-on learning, science inquiry, outdoor experiential opportunities and the instruction of English, French and Dogrib. Our basic beliefs revolve around the acronym SOAR- Share what you have (S), Ownership (O), Achieve your very best (A) and Respect everyone and everything around you. (R). Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Why is space travel so important to astronauts and other humans? 2. I saw a picture you took of the northern lights and we have a lot of them over here in Yellowknife. Are you able to fly through the northern lights? 3. How do you see the sun from where you are? Is there a sunrise or sunset? Is it different to how we see it on earth? 4. How long are you there and how long can a person stay in space? Does it affect your body in anyway, causing irreversible consequences? 5. Do you constantly work up there? Do you do anything for fun? If so,what? 6. What is your favorite thing about being in space? 7. What is the most challenging thing about being in space? 8. Does your hair and nails grow at the same rate in space? Is there anything different about the way they grow? 9. If there is an emergency on the space station and you have to escape, is there an emergency pod? If not what happens? 10. What is gravitational time dilation? 11. How do you keep time in space? Are you in a time zone? 12. Do you think humans will ever live on another planet? 13. What were you thinking when you blasted off? 14. What is the strangest thing you have ever seen or experienced in space? 15. Is it as silent as movies show? Why? 16. What do you miss the most while you are there? 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. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC 2. Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 20:18:50 UTC 3. Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin Contact is a go for Wed 2019-06-05 07:50 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), the ISS National Lab and 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 public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.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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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-05-24 16:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 24 May '19

24 May '19

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-05-24 16:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 16:31:25 UTC 34 deg Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch for a live stream at www.ariotti.com Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC 81 deg Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 20:18:50 UTC 48 deg Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD (***) The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS (***) The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin (***) Contact is a go for Wed 2019-06-05 07:50 UTC (***) Watch for these upcoming events: (***) MAI-75 SSTV Event: Wed 2019-06-05 12:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC (***) MAI-75 SSTV Event: Thu 2019-06-06 11:30 UTC to 15:30 UTC (***) 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 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-05-24 16:30 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 http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-05-20 17:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ****************************************************************************** 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. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood 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? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. (***) 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 The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 135 Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 114 **************************************************************************** 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. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1307. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1250. 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: 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 **************************************************************************** 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 Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 58 on orbit Oleg Konenenko David St-Jacques KG5FYI Anne McClain Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague KG5TMV **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 24 May '19

24 May '19

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica on 27 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:31 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 OR4ISS and IK1SLD. The contact should be audible over Italy and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. There are two locations connected. Both belong to the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC). San Carlos is located on the most-north Costarrican área. Although is recognized as a rural area, that has developed an agricultural production during the last 80 years, now is booming with technology-based companies, receiving the nickname "Costa Rica's Silicon Valley" to San Carlos. In Cartago, the Central location of TEC, the activity is organized by TECSpace, the space engineering student group of the university, with more than 100 members, and the Space Systems Engineering Laboratory (SETEC Lab) who was in charge of the design of the first satellite of Central America, launched in 2018. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What sentiments and feelings did you have when seeing space for the first time? 2. A journey to Mars will have to deal with multiple gravity transitions. Are there any projects of experiments that were proposed for this matter by space agencies? 3. How do you think the astronaut business will change with the advent of self-funded private human spaceflight? 4. Given your background as a physician, what areas of medicine do you think will be key to innovate and research to successfully undertake long term deep space missions? 5. What advice would you give to young students interested on being an astronaut or being involved in human spaceflight? 6. How will the space station influence the future plans for reaching the moon in 2024? 7. How much time did it take you to learn to fly a jet and what did you enjoy the most about that experience? 8. What challenging experiences did you have to face in order to become an astronaut? 9. Given your extremely great time management skills for being able to accomplish your 3 majors, and such other studies. What advice could you give other people about time management skills? 10. Of the experiments that you are working on right now on the ISS, what is your favorite? And what's it about? 11. Will your research on long distance medicine have an impact on medical services provided to remote communities, like Canada's Inuit people? 12. Now that you have experienced living in space for several months, what are two things you would recommend space ships have incorporated in their design for long term space voyages? 13. Will you please come and visit us at TEC when you and your family are on your next trip to Costa Rica? 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. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada via VK6MJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 20:18:50 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), the ISS National Lab and 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 public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN 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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Getting Back Into Satellites - Moxon Link
by Kenneth P Alexander 24 May '19

24 May '19

My apologies. Apparently the link I provided to the Moxon antenna article didn't work. This one ought to! http://www.oocities.org/w9bci/VHFUHFSatelite.pdf 73, Ken Alexander (still VE3HLS) So Phisai, Thailand Blog: bueng-ken.com

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