Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2016-08-06 20:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Space Jam 10, Rantoul IL, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Contact was successful: Sat 2016-08-06 15:59:03 UTC 32 deg (***) Congratulations to Kate as this was her first ARISS contact! (***)

OK2KJT Radioclub, Valasska Polanka, Czech Republic, direct via OK2KET The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Takuya Onishi KF5LKS Contact is a go for: Wed 2016-08-10 18:56:17 UTC 90 deg

U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville AL, telebridge via VK4KHZ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-08-11 15:25:44 UTC 66 deg

**************************************************************************** ** Citing health issues, long time Australian ARISS ambassador, co-ordinator, mentor, and telebridge operator Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI has elected to step down at the end of August. Tony has been an outstanding ARISS mentor and telebridge operator from the SAREX days right up to what is now ARISS. Tony has mentored 56 ARISS schools and has been the ARISS telebridge station for 51 contacts.

Shane Lynd VK4KHZ will be taking over Tony's duties in September. Shane has so far been the telebridge operator for 36 contacts. (***)

Thanks Tony!!

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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 aj9n@amsat.org or aj9n@aol.com.

Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz.

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All ARISS contacts are made via the Ericsson 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 kbanke@sbcglobal.net **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100

schools:

Gaston ON4WF with 121 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 120 Francesco IKØWGF with 117

**************************************************************************** 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 2016-08-06 20:00 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

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1076. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1041. (***) 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 2016-08-06 20:00 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. 47 on orbit Jeff Williams KD5TVQ Oleg Skripochka RN3FU Aleksey Ovchinin

Exp. 48 on orbit Anatoly Ivanishin Kate Rubins KG5FYJ Takuya Onishi KF5LKS ****************************************************************************

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