Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2000-02-11 23:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

1st and 2nd Lyceums of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece-68100, direct via SX7ISS Contact was successful: Wed 2009-02-11 07:43:22 36 deg (***)

South Park Elementary, South Park, PA via telebridge K6DUE Contact is a go for: Tue Feb 17 18:11:46 UTC 44 deg

Salluit SchoolS, Salluit, Quebec, Canada, telebridge via W6SRJ Contract is a go for: Thu 2009-02-19 14:17:13 UTC 21 deg

Erie Planetarium, Erie, PA via telebridge W6SRJ (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2009-02-21 18:19:20 UTC 24 deg (***)

ARISS mourns the passing of ARISS mentor Dieter Schliemann KX4Y/ZS6BBH. Dieter was our main Echolink guy. He will be greatly missed.

Crossband repeater and packet have been active! Don’t forget to do Doppler correction for the crossband repeater! Don’t forget the keyword here is Repeater. Repeaters have the FM capture effect. Strongest into the machine wins momentarily.

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 409. (***)

Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 14.

QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL%27s

ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS0ISS

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The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2009-02-11 23:00 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.txt

The successful school list has been updated as of 2009-02-11 23:00 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... tf

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

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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.

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Exp. 18 on orbit: Michael Fincke KE5AIT Yury Lonchakov RA3DT Sandra Magnus KE5FYE

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

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