ARISS News Release                                                                                                   No.   21-41  

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

ARISS Contact Scheduled for Students at Youth on The Air Camp (YOTA) 2021

West Chester, OH, USA

 

July 12, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

 

This will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students will take turns asking their questions of Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. English is the language that will be used during this contact.  Both onsite and remote access will be provided to the student body at the time of the contact per Covid-19 guidelines. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the telebridge station.

 

ARISS team member John Sygo in Paardekraal, South Africa, call sign ZS6JON will serve as the relay amateur radio station.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for July 14, 2021 at 11:03 am EDT (West Chester, OH), (15:03 UTC, 10:03 am CDT, 9:03 am MDT and 8:03 am PDT).

 

Youth on the Air 2021 (YOTA) is a week-long camp (July 11-16) for ham radio operators ages 15-25 from across North, Central, and South America, and is held at the Voice of America Museum in West Chester, OH. The VOA Museum and the West Chester Amateur Radio Club (WC8VOA) is partnering with this YOTA Region 2 Camp event. They will provide ham radio educational activities for camp participants and support the ARISS contact. This camp event is designed to help licensed students to take ham radio to the next level by providing them with unique experiences and technologies, and the opportunity to meet other young hams. The camp staff is a collection of experienced ham volunteers from across the Americas. Young hams that are staff and some that are volunteers from local amateur radio clubs will lead activities. These include: kit building, antenna building, transmitter hunting and direction finding, digital modes, and a high-altitude balloon launch.  Amateur satellite operation is one of the workshops provided; others included effective radio communications, local history of ham radio, and using amateur radio during emergencies. This ARISS contact is intended to inspire these young hams to learn more about communication using amateur satellites and making ARISS radio contacts.

 

The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LVWge18cxFh0SnHemQ2zQ

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 

1. Who are your greatest role models and mentors and why?

2. What is the most interesting thing you have seen from space?

3. What was the biggest challenge you faced in becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it?

4. How often do you or other astronauts man the ISS simplex radio?

5. What are you doing now on the space station that will help future missions to the Moon and Mars conduct their experiments safely?

6. What is the hardest aspect of space travel that training cannot prepare you for?

7. What are your specific role(s) on the ISS?

8. What is your favorite thing to do in space that can’t be done on earth?

9. What does a typical day look like?

10. What is the most rewarding part about living and working on the ISS?

11. What new space related technology are you most excited for?

12. When did you first learn about ham radio?

13. How are breaches or leaks in the station detected and what are the necessary steps to contain them?

14. How often do you launch smaller spacecraft into orbit on the space station?

15. Are there many issues for you to fix on a day-to-day basis?

 

ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur Radio Continuous Operations on the ISS

 

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-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

 

 

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                                                                              

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