Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2011-07-21 23:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Peruvian National University of Lima, Lima, Peru, direct via OA4BTF Contact is a go for 2011-07-22 20:15 UTC

European Space Agency for ESA Space Camp 2011, San Rossore (Pisa), Tuscany, Italy, direct via IQ5VR Contact is a go for: Sat 2011-07-23 09:42:44 UTC 41 deg Contact will be webcast on http://www.livestream.com/AMSAT_Italia (***)

United Space School, Seabrook, Texas, telebridge via W6SRJ Contact is a go for: Sat 2011-07-30 17:01:44 UTC 82 deg

Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time.

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 655. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 638. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 41.

A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf

Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.

IN LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS BULLETIN BOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++

QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL%27s

ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS

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The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2011-07-21 23:00 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.rtf (note change of file type)

The successful school list has been updated as of 2011-07-20 18:30 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 .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. 27 on orbit Andrey Borisenko Aleksandr Samokutyayev Ronald J. Garan KF5GPO

Exp. 28 on orbit Sergey Volkov Michael E. Fossum KF5AQG Satoshi Furukawa KE5DAW

STS-135 back on earth (***) Christopher Ferguson Douglas Hurley Sandra Magnus KE5FYE Rex Walheim

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