Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at:

CEPES,Jodoigne,Belgium & Mimar SinanÖzel Okulları,İstanbul,Turkey

Wednesday 1 April AOS is anticipated at approximately 0920 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and K6DUE in Greenbelt, Maryland The contact should be audible over the east coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English and French.

Cepes is situated in Jodoigne, a city in the French speaking region of Belgium. It is a secundary school gathering 810 students. The students participating to the ARISS project specialize in Sciences, Mathematics, Languages and Human Sciences. They are 15 -20 years old.

Mimar Sinan College is situated in Istanbul, Turkey. The students prepared the questions after they learned about the ISS during science lessons.They also watched videos of astronauts working in the ISS.

Audio from this contact will be fed into the:

EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377)

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 due to server control issues on Echolink* there will be *manual breaks* of 1.5 seconds in the audio transmission these occur every 2.5 minutes during the event there is a possibility repeater connections may time out. 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