Yea Dave! What a fantastic idea and opportunity to engage your daughter in the ARISS program. You turned a passive event (just listening in) into an active learning experience. I bet that with a little preparation, the same technique could be leveraged / expanded to a classroom situation. Besides direct RF, the contacts that are live-streamed could be used as well, all time-zone permitting of course.

We generally only get a few days to a week advance notice of the questions. Are they available sooner through other channels? That would be the biggest challenge to leveraging this to a more expanded audience.

Greg KO6TH

Dave Ryan via AMSAT-BB wrote:

Hi All Sorry, i made a mess of attaching the youtube link.

My Daughter and I listened in on an ARISS QSO between Astronaut Shane Kimbrough and South Street School, Danbury, Connecticut USA, The contact was made with ON4ISS, an ARISS telebridge station in Belgium and was audible over South Yorkshire in the UK.

Before the contact, we downloaded the list of questions that the students were going to ask, we then tried to think of the answers that Astronaut Shane Kimbrough would give, we got a lot right, and a few wrong. We made a video of the QSO and posted it on youtube :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQbyIH8Qwg Regards EI4HT/M0GIW Dave and Erin Ryan _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb