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
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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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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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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Steve Kristoff skristof@etczone.com
"A few chords strummed on a ukulele, enough to please a few others beside yourself, does more good in this world than the combined efforts of all the financiers and politicians that ever lived." - Frank Littig, Littig's New Harmony Self Instructor Chords for Ukulele, Banjuke or Taro Patch Fiddle, Chart Music Publishing House, Chicago, Illinois, 1924
As one of the folks involved in this, below is some information. Someone talked about the added stress. Trust me, its there. I've got forty years in as a broadcast engineer, and this "remote" has me very uptight! I will be running the audio mix for the event. From the audio out of the rig, into the gym audio system, and feeding a 16 port media box, to running audio from the handheld mic back into the rig, if that fails, its me. We are using a hand held EV mic, with a aux feed from the board into the TS-2000. I have a pendant switch (nurse call like) that controls the PTT, and there is a broadcast "On the Air" light to let everyone know when the mic is hot.
And who is running the radio setup? Doug Paypay, KD8CAO. I have no concerns. :) And Mike Wolthuis, KB8ZGL and the crew form the Lowell ARC has done an amazing job in installing the antennas. Mike will be the local and radio host. The local cable TV access channel will have a 4 camera setup (including one on the roof antennas) and will be producing a 30 minute program on it.
I am looking forward to the event, and looking forward to LOS time even more!
More info:
The West Michigan Aviation Academy (http://www.westmichiganaviation.org) has been approved and scheduled for a ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) contact with Kjell Lindgren (KO5MOS).
The ground station was put on loan from the Greenville Amateur Radio Club (KD8RXD) and the event supported by the Lowell Amateur Radio Club (W8LRC) and the Holland Amateur Radio Club (K8DAA). The event is being taped with multiple cameras and is expected to be available on NASATV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/) during the contact (possibly a bit delayed).
Up to date information is available on twitter at #ISS_Ham_Radio (https://twitter.com/ISS_Ham_Radio).
If you would like to stream the live audio to your local repeater and/or listen it is available from several planned sources as follows: IRLP – the Great Lakes Reflector – Channel 9617, Echolink – the *MICHIGAN* conference – Node #96170. The audio stream will also be available for any regular MP3 stream capable player (ie. iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, etc) at the URL: http://stream.kb8zgl.net:8000
Additional links with video as well as audio may be available, but waiting on a final website for that – follow the twitter feed for further updates. Many local news teams are also planning to be on hand from West Michigan – tune in to your favorite news station to see if we make the news!
If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to event coordinator Mike Wolthuis – KB8ZGL email addresskb8zgl@kb8zgl.net
Tom Bosscher K8TB
Yep...there you go right from the horses mouth so to speak. I forgot to throw I. The part about the media. They generally show up on contact day and want to know if they can plug into your audio. If you are an average ham, you just passed out because you either weren't set up for that or you have no idea how to do it. Most ground crews are average hams, most haven't worked a satellite let alone an often 100-700 person media event with one chance to get it right.
JohnAG9D
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On Oct 21, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Tom k8tb@bosscher.org wrote:
As one of the folks involved in this, below is some information. Someone talked about the added stress. Trust me, its there. I've got forty years in as a broadcast engineer, and this "remote" has me very uptight! I will be running the audio mix for the event. From the audio out of the rig, into the gym audio system, and feeding a 16 port media box, to running audio from the handheld mic back into the rig, if that fails, its me. We are using a hand held EV mic, with a aux feed from the board into the TS-2000. I have a pendant switch (nurse call like) that controls the PTT, and there is a broadcast "On the Air" light to let everyone know when the mic is hot.
And who is running the radio setup? Doug Paypay, KD8CAO. I have no concerns. :) And Mike Wolthuis, KB8ZGL and the crew form the Lowell ARC has done an amazing job in installing the antennas. Mike will be the local and radio host. The local cable TV access channel will have a 4 camera setup (including one on the roof antennas) and will be producing a 30 minute program on it.
I am looking forward to the event, and looking forward to LOS time even more!
More info:
The West Michigan Aviation Academy (http://www.westmichiganaviation.org) has been approved and scheduled for a ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) contact with Kjell Lindgren (KO5MOS).
The ground station was put on loan from the Greenville Amateur Radio Club (KD8RXD) and the event supported by the Lowell Amateur Radio Club (W8LRC) and the Holland Amateur Radio Club (K8DAA). The event is being taped with multiple cameras and is expected to be available on NASATV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/) during the contact (possibly a bit delayed).
Up to date information is available on twitter at #ISS_Ham_Radio (https://twitter.com/ISS_Ham_Radio).
If you would like to stream the live audio to your local repeater and/or listen it is available from several planned sources as follows: IRLP – the Great Lakes Reflector – Channel 9617, Echolink – the *MICHIGAN* conference – Node #96170. The audio stream will also be available for any regular MP3 stream capable player (ie. iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, etc) at the URL: http://stream.kb8zgl.net:8000
Additional links with video as well as audio may be available, but waiting on a final website for that – follow the twitter feed for further updates. Many local news teams are also planning to be on hand from West Michigan – tune in to your favorite news station to see if we make the news!
If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to event coordinator Mike Wolthuis – KB8ZGL email addresskb8zgl@kb8zgl.net
Tom Bosscher K8TB
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Tom, thank you for doing this! I teach at a community college and send out an email that I would be in the parking lot listening to the astronaut side of the conversation directly from the Space Station. Last time I did that, one person stopped by to listen with me for awhile.
From what I've heard, I may have some more company this time.
Again, thanks for all the hard work! 73 Steve AI9IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" k8tb@bosscher.org To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 6:52 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Thursday's ARISS contact
As one of the folks involved in this, below is some information. Someone talked about the added stress. Trust me, its there. I've got forty years in as a broadcast engineer, and this "remote" has me very uptight! I will be running the audio mix for the event. From the audio out of the rig, into the gym audio system, and feeding a 16 port media box, to running audio from the handheld mic back into the rig, if that fails, its me. We are using a hand held EV mic, with a aux feed from the board into the TS-2000. I have a pendant switch (nurse call like) that controls the PTT, and there is a broadcast "On the Air" light to let everyone know when the mic is hot.
And who is running the radio setup? Doug Paypay, KD8CAO. I have no concerns. :) And Mike Wolthuis, KB8ZGL and the crew form the Lowell ARC has done an amazing job in installing the antennas. Mike will be the local and radio host. The local cable TV access channel will have a 4 camera setup (including one on the roof antennas) and will be producing a 30 minute program on it.
I am looking forward to the event, and looking forward to LOS time even more!
More info:
The West Michigan Aviation Academy (http://www.westmichiganaviation.org) has been approved and scheduled for a ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) contact with Kjell Lindgren (KO5MOS).
The ground station was put on loan from the Greenville Amateur Radio Club (KD8RXD) and the event supported by the Lowell Amateur Radio Club (W8LRC) and the Holland Amateur Radio Club (K8DAA). The event is being taped with multiple cameras and is expected to be available on NASATV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/) during the contact (possibly a bit delayed).
Up to date information is available on twitter at #ISS_Ham_Radio (https://twitter.com/ISS_Ham_Radio).
If you would like to stream the live audio to your local repeater and/or listen it is available from several planned sources as follows: IRLP – the Great Lakes Reflector – Channel 9617, Echolink – the *MICHIGAN* conference – Node #96170. The audio stream will also be available for any regular MP3 stream capable player (ie. iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, etc) at the URL: http://stream.kb8zgl.net:8000
Additional links with video as well as audio may be available, but waiting on a final website for that – follow the twitter feed for further updates. Many local news teams are also planning to be on hand from West Michigan – tune in to your favorite news station to see if we make the news!
If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to event coordinator Mike Wolthuis – KB8ZGL email addresskb8zgl@kb8zgl.net
Tom Bosscher K8TB
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