There are three contacts scheduled for Monday 22 July, one actual and two terrestrial training contacts as follows:
*Scuola Italiana di Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay* on Monday July 22nd, AOS is anticipated at 1139 UTC
The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK5ZAI in South Australia. The contact should be audible over Australia and the Pacific. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in Italian.
The SIM is a prestigious educational institution in Uruguay, which has a history of 125 years of uninterrupted work. Provides educational services covering all cycles from the Nursery School to High School. Its building infrastructure is established in an area of over 13 hectares, with large green spaces and vast locations closed and open. Our organization has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification for the "Design and provision of education for all school years" is the only private educational institution in the country that has achieved this award. The Scuola Italiana di Montevideo account for over fifteen years with astronomical activities cut across the entire institution, through the SIM Astronomical Observatory.
*Training CONTACT with Reid Wiseman – KF5LKT - Contact conducted in English*
*Training CONTACT with Alexander Gerst – KF5ONO - Contact conducted in German and English*
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Training contact is anticipated to be in the 1830 to 1930 UTC time period -
This training session is in the middle of school holidays. Schools were invited to propose students to participate to a conversation with astronauts during their holidays.
The venue is in the Radio Club of Leuven, a city in Belgium. Radio contact between Houston and Leuven is established over IRLP (Internet Radio Linking Project), a worldwide amateur radio network linking local amateur repeater stations. IRLP stations are operating in VHF and UHF frequency bands.
Belgium counts two main Regions : Flanders in the North and Wallonia in the South. Flanders is a Dutch speaking Region and Wallonia is a French speaking Region. Leuven is in Flanders. The city is famous for its Catholic University, founded in 1425.
Audio from all contacts will be fed into the:
EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) and *JK1ZRW* (277208) servers
IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector
Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/
Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally transmitted around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS.
Please note that on Echolink there are automatic breaks of 1.5 seconds in the audio transmission. These occur every 2.5 minutes during the event. Breaks on IRLP are manual and occur approximately after every third question.
** Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes **
73,
John - AG9D
ARISS Audio Distribution