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2011-05-30 ARISS Status
by Carol Jackson 30 May '11

30 May '11

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report May 30, 2011 1. Upcoming School Contacts The ARISS team continues to work on scheduling school contacts as the STS-134 crew members depart the ISS. 2. Successful ARISS Contact for Escola EBI/JI de Montenegro On Monday, May 23 students from Escola EBI/JI de Montenegro in Faro, Portugal participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with on-orbit astronaut Cady Coleman, KC5ZTH. The contact complemented the school's science and math curriculum through which students took part in astronomy contests, built small AM radios, and attended presentations given by amateur radio operators. An audience of 50 students and hams attended the contact and listened as Coleman answered 20 questions. Another 900 students nationwide viewed the event over the internet. Local and national radio and television provided media coverage. To view the digital mais tv report, see: http://www.digitalmaistv.com/videos/1840.html 3. ARRL Letter Covers ARISS Proposal Process The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran a story on the new ARISS proposal process for U.S. schools in its May 26 ARRL Letter. There will be two windows of opportunity each year for U.S. schools and organizations to submit proposals for an ARISS contact. A window is currently open for U.S. schools; proposals should be submitted by July 15, 2011 for a contact that will be scheduled during the January - July 2012 time frame. NASA sent out an EXPRESS message to 18,000 educators letting them know of this opportunity. See: http://www.arrl.org/news/nasa-and-ariss-reach-out-to-educators 4. AMSAT - New ARISS Proposal The May 29 AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) News Service bulletin (ANS-149) included a story on the new ARISS-US proposal procedure. "ARISS Announces New Process for US School Contact Proposals" may be found at: http://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2011/000517.html 5. Amateur Radio Newsline on ARISS On May 27, the Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1763 included two ARISS-related items. "Hamvention 2011: It Was the Show to be at" describes Doug Wheelock's appearance at the Dayton Hamvention over the May 20-22 weekend, which was a big hit with the crowds. The second piece under "Ham Radio in Space" covers the return to Earth of Expedition 27 crew members Dmitri Kondratyev, Cady Coleman, KC5ZTH and Paolo Nespoli, IZ0JPA on May 23. See: ftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News/news.txt

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Video - QSO WP3GW - NA1SS @ 1609 UTC 5/28/2011
by santanaamt＠aol.com 28 May '11

28 May '11

Hi all/ Hola a todos: Just posted on YouTube/ Posteado en YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzRWEzKH_M Enjoy/Disfruten, Angel Santana - WP3GW

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QSO with NA1SS @ 1609 UTC
by santanaamt＠aol.com 28 May '11

28 May '11

Background: Was reading Endeavour to depart tomorrow from ISS, and on the issfanclub site was an overhead pass. Action: Began to call CQ and heard squelch opening until Mike Fincke called me back! We spoke for a minute and he even spoke spanish to me. So check on next pass. Later: Took a webcam video which will edit and post later on YouTube, will advise later. Cheers, Angel Santana - WP3GW

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Krystian Górski 25 May '11

25 May '11

LinkedIn ------------ I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Krystian Krystian Górski Student at Akademia Morska w Gdyni Poland Confirm that you know Krystian Górski https://www.linkedin.com/e/3qw3vr-go5a7hq2-5c/isd/3008791968/n-GE36-s/ -- (c) 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

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Fw: Yaesu G-800S/G-800SDX
by Farrell Winder 25 May '11

25 May '11

Wanted: Would like to purchase Yaesu Controller Box G-800S or preferably G-800SDX. Want controller box only. Please reply direct to my E-Mail address. Thanks, Farrell Winder, W8ZCF Cincinnati, OH

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Fw: Yaesu G-800S or G-800SDX
by Farrell Winder 25 May '11

25 May '11

Wanted: Yaesu Controller Box G-800S or preferably G-800SDX. Want controller box only. Please reply direct to my E-Mail address. Thanks, Farrell Winder, W8ZCF Cincinnati, OH

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Fw: Yaesu G-800S or G-800SDX
by Farrell Winder 25 May '11

25 May '11

Subject: Yaesu G-800S or G-800SDX Wanted: Yaesu Controller Box G-800S or preferably G-800SDX. Want controller box only. Please reply direct to my E-Mail address. Thanks, Farrell Winder, W8ZCF Cincinnati, OH

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-05-25 18:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 25 May '11

25 May '11

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-05-25 18:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Saint Petersburg, Russia, direct via TBD (***) Contact is a go for Sat 2011-05-28 05:05 UTC (***) 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. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 643. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 626. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 40. 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. IN LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS BULLETIN BOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS, IRØISS **************************************************************************** ** The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2011-05-25 18:00 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 (note change of file type) The successful school list has been updated as of 2011-05-24 04:30 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 **************************************************************************** There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio. **************************************************************************** Exp. 27 on orbit Andrey Borisenko Aleksandr Samokutyayev Ronald J. Garan KF5GPO STS-134 on orbit and docked to the ISS. **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-05-24 04:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 23 May '11

23 May '11

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-05-24 04:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Escola EBI/JI de Montenegro, Faro, Portugal, direct via CT1REP Contact was successful: Mon 201-05-23 12:36:01 UTC 34 deg (***) Exp. 26 has returned to earth. (***) Congratulations on a job well done! (***) Dmitry Kondratyev Catherine G. Coleman KC5ZTH Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA 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. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 643. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 626. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 40. 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. IN LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS BULLETIN BOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS, IRØISS **************************************************************************** ** The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2011-05-24 04:00 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 (note change of file type) The successful school list has been updated as of 2011-05-24 04:30 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 **************************************************************************** There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio. **************************************************************************** Exp. 26 has returned to earth. (***) Congratulations on a job well done! (***) Dmitry Kondratyev Catherine G. Coleman KC5ZTH Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA Exp. 27 on orbit Andrey Borisenko Aleksandr Samokutyayev Ronald J. Garan KF5GPO STS-134 on orbit and docked to the ISS. (***) **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Upcoming ARISS contact with Escola EBI/JI de Montenegro, Faro, Portugal
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 23 May '11

23 May '11

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Escola EBI/JI de Montenegro, Faro, Portugal on 23 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:36 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and CT1REP. The contact should be audible over Portugal and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. The school EBI/JI de Montenegro is located at 3 kilometers from the capital of Algarve, Faro, near the beach and the airport. The school was built in 1990 and as 900 students, from 4 to 15/17 years old. This school has students from different economical status and foreign students from other countries. Most of the student population comes from rural and sea region. Near the school is located the Ria Formosa Natural Park, very rich and diversify in natural life and resources. This ARISS contact is the Physics and Chemistry teacher Patrícia Raposo project. The project involves Manuel Mil-Homens, the responsible teacher for the image and sound registers and Dina Ferreira, the English teacher. There are 20 students involved in the project, classroom representatives from grades 7th to 9th. Students´ representatives have met with the teacher in charge to talk about the questions and proceedings. The station and radio equipment is REP (Portuguese Radio Emitters) responsibility. A local radio amateur was contacted to do the radio communication. The school also prepared, with the local Radio amateur Club of Loulé, an opened session to the school community about radio amateurs. A press release was prepared and will be sent to the regional and national TV, radio stations and newspapers. Representatives from the city hall and the ministry of the education were also invited. Arrangements were made to have the event documented on video by the Photography and Digital Arts Club Students, supervised by teacher Manuel Mil-Homens. The ARISS contact is also available to the school community in live stream, in the official school page. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Is it true that during the time of your missions at space, you grow less old than the same time spent on Earth? 2. What was your worst experience as an astronaut? 3. Does the spaceship have the equipment to catch all the radiowaves broadcasted from Earth? How? 4. What is your daily routine? 5. What is the most difficult technical equipment to use in the ISS? 6. How do you take a shower in the ISS? 7. What do you eat on space? 8. What is the difference between living in normal gravity conditions and without gravity? 9. Which are the essencial skills and training to become an astronaut? 10. I would like to ask you what is the sensation outside the spaceship? 11. What type of damage can a meteor shower cause to earth-orbiting spacecraft like the ISS? How can you prevent that? 12. What are the side effects of gravity on your metabolism? What do you feel different? 13. Are you scared when you fly? Are you thinking about the danger involved? 14. How is the sensation of seeing our planet from the space? What is it like? 15. What are ISS perspectives for the future? 16. Do you think there is any change to men to land on Mars in the next ten years? 17. What did you feel when you first entered the ISS? 18. How important is your task for humankind? 19. How do you feel in the first ten seconds of the flight? 20. What do you miss most about Earth when you are in the ISS? Information about the upcoming ARISS contacts can be found at http://www.ariss.org/upcoming.htm#NextContact. Next planned event(s): TBD ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). Thank you & 73, David - AA4KN

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