hi all do not forget todays ISS voice pass. Listen on 145.800.
position data for Boston Ma, in local time 2:46 pm
3. ISS (ZARYA) edt Date Time Azim/Elev Range Lat Long Doppler Phs/M Offp
05Sep2007 1446 294/ 0 2160 47N 97W 97 05Sep2007 1447 289/ 3 1809 46N 93W 100 05Sep2007 1448 283/ 8 1475 44N 89W 102 05Sep2007 1449 273/ 13 1172 42N 85W 105 05Sep2007 1450 255/ 18 933 40N 81W 107 05Sep2007 1451 229/ 22 820 38N 78W 110 05Sep2007 1452 200/ 20 881 36N 74W 112 05Sep2007 1453 180/ 14 1088 33N 71W 115 05Sep2007 1454 168/ 9 1375 31N 68W 117 05Sep2007 1455 160/ 4 1702 29N 66W 120
miles wrote:
ISS Amateur Radio Status: September 1, 2007 By Miles Mann WF1F,
MAREX-MG News www.marexmg.org
Manned Amateur Radio Experiment
International Space Station, Voice link, September 05, 2007 Wednesday Starting at 18:44 UTC Ending approximately at 18:54 UTC
Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, direct via N9CHA Wed 2007-09-05 18:44 UTC
For the next few weeks the crew of the International Space Station will be treating Short-Wave-Listeners and Amateur radio operators to live down links from ISS via the Amateur Radio station on ISS. The crew will be conducting Weekly radio links to schools in North America. Everyone is invited to listen to the down links.
On Wednesday 2007-09-05 18:44 UTC, ISS will pass over the central USA and will be actively talking to students.
The path of the International Space station will be entering the USA from the Pacific Ocean near Ocean Falls BC Canada. ISS will then travel across Canada and cross over into the USA near Fargo ND. It will then continue across the Great Lakes and exit the USA over Virginia and onto Bermuda. The Best listening will be 500 miles on either side of a line from Fargo ND to Virginia. In fact most people all along the Canadian and US border will be able to hear the Space Station with a modest outside antenna and a good Scanner / Receiver.
This week Short-wave-Listeners and amateur radio operators will be able to listen to the ISS via amateur radio directly. Listeners living within 500+ miles of one of the cities below should be able to hear the signals directly with a simple scanner or other VHF receiver (an outside antenna is recommended 0 dBd gain or better). ISS will be transmitting on 145.800 FM (5 kHz deviation). You will only be able to here one side of the conversation, since the school will be transmitting on an undisclosed uplink frequency (VHF or UHF).
If you do not have a tracking program, here is a live link to NASA that will show you where ISS is located.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html
Tips on listening: http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/issvoicetips.html
Link to Audio files from Previous school schedules. All files recorded directly off the air via a public Amateur Radio down link frequency. http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/issaudiofiles.html
Current ISS Crew Members as of August 2007
The new crew #15 consist of: Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov Flight Engineer Clay Anderson
Orbital Tracking Data from August 26, 2007
ARISS [+] 1 25544U 98067A 07239.31605324 .00012774 00000-0 83342-4 0 8663 2 25544 51.6355 96.7664 0008176 296.0554 54.5781 15.76271879501995
Orbit path for August 29, 2007 Elevations and angles are measured from Boston Mass, your actual angles will vary.
3. ISS (ZARYA) UTC Date Time Azim/Elev Distance Direction Nearest City.. 05Sep2007 1847 294/ 0 45.5 km NW of Fargo, ND 05Sep2007 1847 291/ 2 174.8 km NW of Brooklyn Park, MN 05Sep2007 1848 289/ 4 91.5 km ENE of Roseville, MN 05Sep2007 1848 285/ 6 49.1 km SW of Wausau, WI 05Sep2007 1849 281/ 9 21.2 km SSE of Sheboygan, WI 05Sep2007 1849 275/ 11 28.1 km NNE of Kalamazoo, MI 05Sep2007 1850 268/ 15 26.2 km SE of Toledo, OH 05Sep2007 1850 258/ 18 51.9 km South of Canton, OH 05Sep2007 1851 244/ 21 141.6 km SSE of Mount Lebanon, PA 05Sep2007 1851 229/ 22 46.7 km NNW of Richmond, VA 05Sep2007 1852 212/ 22 22.6 km ESE of Virginia Beach, VA 05Sep2007 1852 197/ 19 232.9 km SE of Virginia Beach, VA 05Sep2007 1853 185/ 16 443.4 km SE of Virginia Beach, VA 05Sep2007 1853 177/ 13 559.9 km West of Hamilton, Bermuda 05Sep2007 1854 170/ 10 419.3 km West of Hamilton, Bermuda 05Sep2007 1854 165/ 7 356.2 km SW of Hamilton, Bermuda 05Sep2007 1855 161/ 5 408.3 km SSW of Hamilton, Bermuda 05Sep2007 1855 158/ 3 543.5 km South of Hamilton, Bermuda 05Sep2007 1856 155/ 1 716.0 km SSE of Hamilton, Bermuda --------------------------------end of pass------------------------------------
Subject: ARISS event - Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, USA Wednesday (Sep 5) 18:44 UTC
From: "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]"
An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, USA on 05 Sep. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:44 UTC.
The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and N9CHA. The contact should be audible in most of eastern North America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. In addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and EchoLink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.
Gail Borden Library is over 130 years old with a long history of providing materials and services to community members. The first library building was donated by the family of Gail Borden, the inventor of condensed milk. The Library has a history of being innovative. GBPL was the first library in the country to create a center for preschoolers, offering intellectual and social stimulation in a creative, hands-on environment. GBPL was on of the first libraries in the country to install a fiber optic network, linking the library with the City of Elgin and six area schools. Other distinguishing hallmarks include developing services for the Hispanic population with the addition of Spanish-language materials and formation of a steering committee which led to the creation of a literacy training organization. The contact will be part of our Space: Dare to Dream exhibit which is bringing the daring and imagination of the space program through NASA materials and partnering with our local school district. The students participating in the contact represent 12 of the schools in the Elgin U-46 school district which covers 90 square miles and serves portions of 11 communities in the northwest suburbs of Chicago in Cook, DuPage and Kane Counties with over 40,000 children in grades preK-12. They have been studying about space and scientific activities aboard the ISS. The event is planned to have live video streaming. Visit http://www.gailborden.info/webcast/ariss/ for more information.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. When do you anticipate the first "kid" going into space? 2. How long have you been living in the ISS and how many people can live there at a time? 3. What do you eat in outer space? 4. Do you have to wear a lot of special equipment while in space? 5. What are your daily jobs up in space station? 6. In space is it different at day then at night? 7. Do you miss your family? How long do you have to be away from them? 8. Are you weightless in the ISS and if you are, how does it feel? 9. Is it hard to stay in space so long? 10. How good are the computers that you use? 11. What made you want to become an Astronaut? 12. How much will the Aercam help with the EVA's outside the Shuttle and ISS? 13. How will exploring space now going to help people my age when we grow up and what changes could be made in our lives because you are in outer space? 14. How do you read in outer space and what books are you reading now? 15. Is it ever sort of scary or strange being in space? 16. What do you see on the surface of the moon? 17. What experiments are you currently working on that will have a significant impact on man on earth and what have you discovered so far? 18. Who is your favorite author? 19. What is it like blasting off and being in space? 20. What will you do when you return to Earth?
Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact .
Next planned event(s): 1. King Academy, Mount Clemens, Michigan USA, Tue 2007-09-11 16:06 UTC via N8LC
2. Westbrook Intermediate, Friendswood, Texas USA, Fri 2007-09-14 18:40:52 UTC via W6SRJ
ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).
Thank you & 73, Kenneth - N5VHO
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Pictures of the Amateur Radio station on the International Space Station.
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/radiohardware.html
Slow Scan TV: The Marex Slow Scan TV project, SpaceCam1 was activated for a few weeks last August using a Borrowed Laptop. The amateur radio projects still do not have a dedicated laptop for the projects and there are no laptops scheduled for flight to be used for Amateur Radio usage on ISS in the foreseeable future.
http://www.marexmg.org/imagessstv/SpaceCamImages1.htm
Marex Future Project Proposals: Marex is working on keeping ISS accessible and affordable by keeping it on the air. We have submitted proposals for a new packet system, which has been initially approved. We are also working on other proposals, including proposals to replace most of the aging hardware with new state-of-the-art hardware including:
David Clark: (www.davidclark.com) Manufacturers commercial grade Headsets for quite listening while using the Amateur Radio station.
DCI RF filters (www.dci.ca) Custom designed RF filters to reduce interference to the Amateur Radio stations (Just think of the range you get when you put your antenna 240 miles up, that's 1500 miles to the horizon. You also can hear a lot of interference too.)
Radio Mailbox: Kantronics KPC-9612 data modem with built in Mailbox that allows Amateur radio stations to send and receive messages via the ISS mail box.
The goal is to keep it simple and kept it on the air. Your support is always welcome.
School Schedules: If you want to listen to ISS school schedules on the 145.800, then you should check the ARISS web page to seen when the next time ISS will be on the air in your part of the world. Listeners are encouraged to tune in and listing to the ARISS School down links.
Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact .
Marexmg Web page http://www.marexmg.org
ARISS Web page and other great Space projects http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
73 Miles WF1F MAREX-MG
Until we meet again
DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F
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