Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2008-04-11 18:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Han Gwang Boys & Girls High School, Pyeong Taek City, Gyeong Gi Province, Republic of Korea, direct via HL0HQSC Contact is a go for: Sun 2008-04-13 10:57 UTC 79 deg Scheduled for Yi So-yeon who will use HL0ARISS

Central Middle School, West Parsippany, New Jersey, direct via N2XJ Contact is a go for: Mon 2008-04-14 17:03 UTC 85 deg (***)

National Science Museum of Korea, Daejon, Republic of Korea, direct via HL0HQSC Contact is a go for: 2008-04-18 01:35 UTC Scheduled for Yi So-yeon who will use HL0ARISS

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, Florida, telebrdige via W6SRJ (***) Contact is a go for: Mon 2008-04-21 17:48 UTC 32 deg (***)

Next missions with astronaut/hams on board. STS-124

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 341. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 6.

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 2008-04-10 16:00 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 2008-04-08 22:00 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.

***************************************************************************** Expedition 16 on orbit: Peggy Whitson Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP Garrett Reisman KE5HAE

Expedition 17 on orbit and docked to the ISS: (***) Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko RN3DX Space FlightParticipant Yi So-yeon

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

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