ARISS News Release                                                                                                   No.   21-41

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

West Chester,OH, USA

July 12, 2021—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the groupthat puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around theglobe 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 turnsasking their questions of Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. English is the language that will beused during this contact.  Both onsite and remote accesswill be provided to the student body at the time of the contact per Covid-19guidelines. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may beheard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses thetelebridge station.

ARISSteam member John Sygo in Paardekraal, South Africa, call sign ZS6JON will serveas the relay amateur radio station.

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

Youth on the Air2021 (YOTA) is a week-long camp (July 11-16) for ham radio operators ages 15-25from across North, Central, and South America, and is held at the Voice ofAmerica Museum in West Chester, OH.The VOA Museum and the West Chester Amateur Radio Club (WC8VOA) is partneringwith this YOTA Region 2 Camp event. They will provide ham radio educationalactivities for camp participants and support the ARISS contact. This camp eventis designed to help licensed students to take ham radio to the next level by providingthem with unique experiences and technologies, and the opportunity to meetother young hams. The camp staff is a collection of experienced ham volunteersfrom across the Americas. Young hams that are staff and some that arevolunteers 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 theworkshops provided; others included effective radio communications, localhistory of ham radio, and using amateur radio during emergencies. This ARISScontact is intended to inspire these young hams to learn more about communicationusing 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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Astime 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 didyou 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 tothe 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 necessarysteps 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 RadioContinuous Operations on the ISS

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS NationalLab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communications and Navigationprogram. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science,technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this byorganizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard theISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators,parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied tospace, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

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