Good answers. Thank you, gentlemen! Steve AI9IN
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Spasojevich" johnag9d@gmail.com Cc: "AMSAT BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org; "Steve Kristoff" skristof@etczone.net Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Thursday's ARISS contact
Steve,
Typically the audio from a telebridge contact is carried on the AMSAT Echolink server and on the web. Direct contacts in the US are a little more tricky to get the audio out from the school via phone patch or skype. Also it's felt to add more to the stress level of the ground crew, we'd rather have them make a good contact for their local use. I've generally added that capability to the directs I've done personally and I'll tell you its a good half a days work to do it. At one school I has 150 feet of Cat5 strung around the gym to get to the stage and on another we tried the Iphone app. Never got any reports so I don;t know how well that worked. we were lucky to get a signal in that school. The gear we used was the same from school to school, which is not the norm.
73, John - AG9D
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Dave Taylor dave.w8aas@verizon.net wrote:
Probably because the person who maintains that site is on vacation and not due back till later this week.
The contact in Grand Rapids is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22 at 17:15 UTC. It is direct, so the downlink will be audible in that part of the country. I have not heard if the school will be streaming it. This has been announced on amsat-bb, with school info and the questions to be asked.
There is also a direct contact in Dearborn the following week, on Tuesday, Oct 27 at 16:02 UTC.
Dave
On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:13 PM, Steve Kristoff skristof@etczone.net
wrote:
Anyone know why the upcoming ARISS contact in Michigan is not listed on
the ARISS.org website? I was trying to tell a friend about and I suggested he check out the website. The website is not up-to-date. Kind of embarrassing, I would think.
Is the contact going to be streamed live on any websites?
Steve Kristoff AI9IN EM79ji Oldenburg, IN skristof@etczone.com
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