Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-12-06 06:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Shirokawa Elementary School, Seiyo, Japan, direct via 8J5SS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-12-11 11:06:25 UTC 70 deg (***)

Antietam Elementary School, Woodbridge, VA, direct via KM4TAY The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-12-11 18:30:10 UTC 36 deg (***)

Summa-Aldapeta, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, direct via EG2SMA The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Joe Acaba KE5DAR Contact is a go for: Tue 2017-12-12 13:01:28 UTC 84 deg (***)

**************************************************************************** ** 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 [email protected] or [email protected].

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 [email protected] **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100

schools:

Francesco IKØWGF with 132 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 124 Gaston ON4WF with 123 Sergey RV3DR with 100

**************************************************************************** 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 Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added.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 2017-12-06 06:30 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

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1196. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1145. 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: Arkansas, Delaware, 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 2017-12-05 07:00 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

https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 52 on orbit Randy Bresnik Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA Sergey Ryazanskiy

Exp. 53 on orbit Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP Alexander Misurkin Joe Acaba KE5DAR

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