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

Mt. Ousley Public School, Fairy Meadow, NSW, Australia on Tuesday March 13th. AOS scheduled to begin at approximately 07:35 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and IK1SLD in Italy. The contact should be audible over portions of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Mt Ousley (ooze-ly) Public School is a government school in coastal Wollongong, New South Wales about 100km south of Sydney. We have 185 students aged 5-12yrs and have 12 teachers. We enjoy learning experiences that connect us with the world and use technology to help us communicate and follow the crew on Facebook and Twitter.

Audio from this contact will be fed into the:

EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) and *JK1ZRW* (277208) servers

IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector

Audio on Echolink 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