Re: ARISS Event - Rescheduled Flanders Science Festival
Group, This is the second time ARISS has posted the announcment that the School contact WILL take place on October 10th this year. Perhaps like NASA, they also have a "year end" issue with their computer. :-)
Also, there is no explanation in the FAQs about what a "Telebridge" is. I assume it is some internet link, in which case one wonders if it really has anything to do with amateur radio. We certainly won't be able to "listen in" on 145.800 as I have done in the past - shame.
73 to all Hugh M0WYE
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]" kenneth.g.ransom@nasa.gov To: SAREX@AMSAT.Org Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:29 PM Subject: [sarex] ARISS Event - Rescheduled Flanders Science Festival contact, Fri (Nov 10) at 14:37 UTC
An International Space Station Expedition 14 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Henri d'Haese" primary school in Gentbrugge, Belgium who were part of the Flanders Science Festival. The contact was aborted due to delays in the Progress docking and has been reschedule for Friday, 10 Oct 2006. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:37 UTC.
The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and W5RRR. The contact should be audible to anyone in southeastern portions of the United States. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. Additional listening options are listed below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.
Hugh, While you can't listen on 145.800 in Europe, the hams around Houston, Texas near W5RRR will be able to listen this morning around 14:37 UTC. As the announcement also notes - you can listen on IRLP and Echolink - so there is plenty of amateur radio involved.
The W5RRR station will speak to the ISS via amateur radio. W5RRR will be on a telephone conference call with the school in Flanders, and the school will be able to converse with the astronaut by that means through W5RRR.
Obviously, most folks prefer a "direct" contact without the telebridge, but there are times when ISS crew work schedules, orbital mechanics, and school schedules do not allow for a direct contact. So the telebridge is used. The teleconference itself is donated by Verizon. There are currently telebridge stations in Hawaii, Australia, North America, South Africa and Belgium.
73 Tim w6mu
At 09:08 AM 11/10/2006 +0000, Hugh_m0wye wrote:
Also, there is no explanation in the FAQs about what a "Telebridge" is. I assume it is some internet link, in which case one wonders if it really has anything to do with amateur radio. We certainly won't be able to "listen in" on 145.800 as I have done in the past - shame.
73 to all Hugh M0WYE
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