Please join us in listening to TWO ISS contacts on Wednesday 20 March.

The first will be with participants at:

Christ the King School, Adelaide, South Australia - AOS anticipated at 07:15 UTC

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and IK1SLD in Italy. The contact should be audible over parts of Eurpoe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Established by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, Christ the King School, Warradale, is a small, Reception to Year 5 Catholic parish school within the Brighton Parish in Adelaide. The school has approximately 190 students across 7 classes.

The second contact will be with participants at:

Ann RichardsSchool for Young Women Leaders,Austin, TX, telebridge via VK6MJ - AOS anticipated at 14:20 UTC

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ in Australia. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders is a unique all-girls school founded to educate young women and give them the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in college, in their careers, and in their communities. We are a public school in the Austin Independent School District serving over 700 girls in 6th through 12th grade. The girls partake and excel in engineering design projects and robotics competitions. The demographics of our student body mirror that of our local community. During the 2011 – 2012 school year, 61% percent of our students were Hispanic, 22% are Caucasian, 13% were African-American, 3% were Asian-American and 1% were American Indian/Alaskan Native. Two hundred of the girls will be gathered as 10 of their peers ask questions on behalf of all grade levels during the ARISS contact.

Audio from this contact will be fed into the:

EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) and *JK1ZRW* (277208) servers

IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector

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