Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-05-10 21:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

St. Michael School, Schererville, IN, direct via KB9ORH Contact was successful: Mon 2011-05-09 17:55:30 UTC 44 deg

Mount Carmel Academy, Houston, TX, telebridge via ON4ISS Contact was successful: Tue 2011-05-10 15:29:41 UTC 70 deg

Sorry for the late information on the next 2 schools. We had no official information on whether these two had actually been scheduled.

Kursk Bulge Battle Site, Kursk University, Kursk, Russia, direct via RW3WWW Contact was successful: 2011-05-08 11:35 UTC

Irkutsk Physics & Technology Institute (IrGTU), Irkutsk , Russia, direct via RKØSWB Contact was successful: 2011-05-08 08:30 UTC

Tecnico Industriale Statale “Gerolamo e Margherita Montani”, Fermo, I-63023, Italy, direct via I6KZR (***) Contact is a go for: Thu 2011-05-12 09:57:03 UTC 75 deg (***)

English Estates Elementary, Fern Park, Florida, direct via N4EH (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2011-05-13 14:48:26 UTC 26 deg (***)

Primary school “Pasquale Luisi”, Castelluccio Valmaggiore, Foggia, Italy, and Secondaria Di 1° Grado “Virgilio”, Castelluccio , Italy direct via IK0USO/7 (***) Contact is a go for: Sat 2011-05-14 09:09:13 UTC 45 deg (***)

Congratulations to Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA! Paolo now has the record for the number of contacts during a single flight (He is part of Expedition 26/27). Currently he is at 42.

Congratulations to Ronald J. Garan KF5GPO for his first ARISS contact!

Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time.

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 635. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 40.

A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf

Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.

IN LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS BULLETIN BOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++

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

ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS, IRØISS

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The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2011-05-10 21:30 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.rtf (note change of file type)

The successful school list has been updated as of 2011-05-10 18:00 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 .rtf

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. 26 on orbit Dmitry Kondratyev Catherine G. Coleman KC5ZTH Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA

Exp. 27 on orbit Andrey Borisenko Aleksandr Samokutyayev Ronald J. Garan KF5GPO

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