Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-10-18 20:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Malaysian Group of Schools #4 National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, direct via 9M2RPN Successful Thu 2007-10-18 15:39 UTC 88 deg (***)

Malaysian Group of Schools #5 National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, direct via 9M2RPN Sat 2007-10-20 14:50 UTC 84 deg

Giosuè Carducci, Santa Marinella, I- 00058, Italy, direct via IZØLRI Tue 2007-10-23 10:51 UTC 89 deg

JOTA 2007 operation by the crew is going to be circumspect. The crew is really busy during the shuttle docked time and so free time will be limited. So monitor the 145.80 MHz downlink. You just never know!

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 328. (***) Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 1.

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, RS0ISS

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The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2007-10-18 20:30 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.txt

The successful school list has been updated as of 2007-10-18 20:30 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.

***************************************************************************** Expedition 15 on orbit: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Dr. Oleg Kotov Clayton Anderson KD5PLA

Expedition 16 on orbit: Peggy Whitson KC5ZTD Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP

Space Flight Participant on orbit: Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor 9W2MUS

Expedition 16 future: Daniel Tani KD5DXE

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

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