Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-12-30 21:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Frederick W. Harnett Middle School, Blackstone, Massachusetts, telebridge via K6DUE The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Tue 2016-01-05 17:42:06 UTC 81 deg

Sandringham School, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, direct via GB1SAN The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-01-08 08:47:47 UTC 83 deg

**************************************************************************** ** I would like to thank everyone who has supported ARISS since the first contact back 15 years ago. I can still remember ARISS contact #1 where I was the control operator at Burbank outside of Chicago. It has been a blast ever since.

Now we are heading into 2016 where we hope to keep the traditions going. We have 2 contacts scheduled in the first week of the new year.

Charlie AJ9N

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From 2015-12-20 to 2016-01-04, there will be no US Operational Segment

(USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during this period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team.

**************************************************************************** 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 [email protected] or [email protected].

**************************************************************************** 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 [email protected] **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100

schools:

Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 115 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 114

**************************************************************************** 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 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2015-12-30 21:00 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 1015. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 980. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.

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, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 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 2015-12-09 07:30 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. 43/44 on orbit Scott Kelly Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF

Exp. 45 on orbit Sergey Volkov RU3DIS

Exp. 46 on orbit Tim Kopra KE5UDN Timothy Peake KG5BVI Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP

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