Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2009-04-09 21:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Ulvila Upper Secondary School, Ulvila, Satakunta, Finland direct via OH1F Contact is a go for: Fri 2009-04-17 07:40:18 UTC 14 deg

St. Edward School, Ashland, Ohio, direct via N8IHI (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2009-04-20 16:36:30 UTC 72 deg (***)

Kawanishi Seiwadai Community Center, Hyogo, Japan via 8N3KS Contact was unsuccessful: Thu 2009-04-09 07:34:33 UTC 77 deg ARISS is analyzing what happened and will reschedule.

Exp. 18 has returned to earth: (***) Michael Fincke KE5AIT Yury Lonchakov RA3DT

Space Flight Participant has returned to earth: (***) SFP Charles Simonyi KE7KDP/HA5SIK

Congratulations to Mike, Yury, and Charles for a job well done. (***) Mike now has the record for most ARISS school contacts for both a single expedition as well as multiple stays.

Expedition 18 has the record for ARISS contacts by an expedition. (***)

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.

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 429. 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 2009-04-09 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.txt

The successful school list has been updated as of 2009-04-03 05:00 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. 19 on orbit: Gennady Padalka RN3DT Michael Barratt KD5MIJ Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA

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

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