Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2009-03-05 04:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Technopolis and Andre Kuipers Simulation contact was successful Wed 2009-03-04 14:30 UTC (***)

Ralph McCall School Airdrie, Alberta, Canada and Chris Hadfield VA3OOG Simulation contact was successful Wed 2009-03-04 14:45-15:15 UTC (***)

Ralph McCall School Airdrie, Alberta, Canada and Cady Coleman Simulation contact was successful Wed 2009-03-04 15:00-15:30 UTC (***)

Sewickley Academy at Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, telebridge via WH6PN (***) Contact is a go for: Thu 2009-03-12 15:52:09 UTC 25 deg (***)

DaVinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology, Allentown, PA, telebridge via WH6PN (***) Contact is a go for Sat 2009-03-14 15:08:56 UTC 21 deg (***)

Parkside Community College, Parkside, Cambridge , UK direct via GB4FUN (***) Contact is a go for Mon 2009-03-30 16:54:47 UTC 82 deg (***)

The Girl’s Middle School, Mountain View, CA via telebridge K6DUE (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2009-03-30 18:16:03 UTC 73 deg (***)

Marcelino Canino Canino Middle School, Dorado, Puerto Rico, 2009-01-27, direct via KP4RF (***) Contact is a go for Tue 2009-03-31 15:29:50 UTC 56 deg (***)

Milwee Middle School, Longwood, Florida telebridge via ON4ISS (***) Contact is a go for Wed 2009-04-01 17:48:33 UTC 36 deg (***)

Carl Sandburg Elementary - Lake Washington School District, Kirkland, WA telebridge via W6SRJ (***) Contact is a go for Thu 2009-04-02 19:28:01 UTC 29 deg (***)

Crossband repeater and packet have been active! Don’t forget to do Doppler correction for the crossband repeater! Don’t forget the keyword here is Repeater. Repeaters have the FM capture effect. Strongest into the machine wins momentarily.

Expedition 18 has now set the record for ARISS contacts by an expedition.

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 417. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 22. (***)

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, OR4ISS, RS0ISS

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The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2009-03-04 04:00 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 2009-03-04 04:00 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... 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.

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Exp. 18 on orbit: Michael Fincke KE5AIT Yury Lonchakov RA3DT Sandra Magnus KE5FYE

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

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