ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-34

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Participants at

Youth on The Air (YOTA) 2023 Summer Camp,Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July15, 2023—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboardthe International Space Station (ISS) and participants at the YOTA 2023 locatedin ON, Canada.  ARISS conducts 60-80 ofthese special amateur radio contacts each year between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.

Youth on the Air (YOTA) Summer Camp is a week-long event foryoung amateur radio operators ages 15 to 25 from North, Central, and SouthAmerica.  This is their third year ofoperations, with YOTA activities designed to demonstrate how these youngparticipants can connect with each other through amateur radio communicationsand STEM activities.  YOTA is also aboutfostering a worldwide community though amateur radio. Throughout the week YOTA participantshave learned to build antennas and telegraph machine kits, talked to hams aroundthe world on high frequencies (HF) from both permanent and portable ham radiostations, and learned how to operate using Morse Code. Camp participants havealso launched and tracked a high-altitude balloon, and communicated through low-earthorbit amateur radio satellites. This will be the first ARISS contactopportunity for many of these students, demonstrating how amateur radio canconnect with the ISS.  After thisexperience, students will come away with a better understanding of the life ofan astronaut on the ISS, and perhaps motivate them to pursue STEM-relatedfields.

This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing YOTA participants toask their questions of Astronaut Steve Bowen, amateur radio call sign KI5BKB.The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard bylisteners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses thetelebridge station.

The ARISS amateur radio ground station(telebridge station) for this contact is in Casale Monferrato, Italy. Theamateur radio volunteer team at the station will use the callsign IK1SLD, toestablish and maintain the ISS connection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for July 18, 2023 at 2:42:54 pm EDT (ON, CAN) (18:42:54UTC, 1:42 pm CDT, 12:42 pm MDT, 11:42 am PDT).

Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtube.com/live/A5bXZUGifYY?feature=share

IK1SLD will start about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com/

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.What is your favorite view from the cupola?

2.How does amateur radio factor into life and science on the ISS?

3.What radios and antennas are used for the ARISS program?

4.How does your training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory compare toextravehicular spacewalks?

5.What is your favorite food to eat on the station and is it the same as here onearth?

6.Does the ISS have an HF setup and have you ever used it?

7.Does the ISS provide weather data from visual observations to ground stations?

8.What advice do you have for someone wanting to become an astronaut?

9.What sorts of creative outlets do you get while on the ISS?

10.What types of experiments are being done on the ISS?

11.Once we have interstellar travel figured out, which celestial object would youlike to visit first?

12.What current experiments are you conducting that will help benefit life onearth?

13.What is the coolest space station repeater contact you have made?

14.How has learning multiple languages affected your daily life on the station?

15.  How are QSOs logged and sent to groundstations from the ISS?

16.Do you have a favorite DSLR camera and lens combination for taking picturesfrom the ISS?

17.Are there property taxes for the ISS and if so, what district would they go to?

18.Do you have any go-to life advice?

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, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) andNASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN). The primary goal ofARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts,and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts viaamateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before andduring these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities takepart in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org

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