Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-03-18 19:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

North Point School for Boys, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS

The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI

Contact is go for: Wed 2019-03-20 20:16:09 UTC 86 deg

Watch for live stream starting about 10-15 minutes before AOS at: www.ariotti.com

Exp. 59 on orbit (***)

Welcome aboard!  (***)

Christina Koch

Aleksey Ovchinin

Nick Hague KG5TMV

ARISS Contact Applications (United States)

The ARISS-US program’s education proposal window should go open in the spring of 2019.

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@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@gmail.com

ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss@iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/  (***)

ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) http://www.jarl.org/

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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@amsat.org or aj9n@aol.com.

Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz.

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All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted.

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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@sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** 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 112

**************************************************************************** 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 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2019-03-18 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

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1293. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1236. 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.

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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.

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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 2019-03-05 16:00 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

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Exp. 58 on orbit

Oleg Konenenko

David St-Jacques KG5FYI

Anne McClain

Exp. 59 on orbit (***)

Welcome aboard!  (***)

Christina Koch

Aleksey Ovchinin

Nick Hague KG5TMV

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73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors