Please join us in listening to an International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at the Canada Science and Technology Museum Summer Day Camps on Thursday, August 9 at 18:39 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and IK1SLD in Italy. The contact should be audible over Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

The museum has run science camps for children in the Ottawa area for over 12 years. The summer of 2012 will see five concurrent camps for 125 children ages 6-12 for seven weeks of the summer. Each of the five camps has a different theme incorporating various aspects of science, technology and engineering and all will participate in the ISS link-up. Other activities will include launching a space balloon, building and programming robots, cryogenic demonstrations, launching water rockets and using robotic arms.

Audio from this contact will be fed into the:

IRLP Node 9010 Discovery and the EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) and *JK1ZRW* (277208) servers 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