Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2009-02-25 21:00 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Simulation contact with European Space Center and Frank DeWinne ON1DWN Contact was successful Tue 2009-02-24 18:45-19:15 UTC (***)

Simulation contact with Manordale Public School and Bob Thirsk W5/VA3CSA (***) Contact was successful Tue 2009-02-24 19:00-19:30 UTC (***)

Chatham Public School, Taree, NSW, Australia, telebridge via K6DUE Contact was successful: Wed 2009-02-25 07:32:22 UTC 42 deg (***)

1 Circolo Didattico G.Marconi, Casamassima, Italy, direct via IZ7EVR Contact was successful: Wed 2009-02-25 07:50:12 UTC 56 deg (***)

Hampton Bays Middle School, Hampton Bays, New York, direct via W2AMC Contact was successful: Wed 2009-02-25 13:57:13 UTC 74 deg (***)

Padthaway Primary School, Padthaway, SA, Australia, telebridge via W6SRJ (***) Contact is a go for: Tue 2009-03-03 08:32:50 UTC 86 deg (***)

Simulation contact with Technopolis and Andre Kuipers Wed 2009-03-04 14:30 UTC times are approximate Should be on IRLP

Bedford South School, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada and Chris Hadfield VA3OOG Wed 2009-03-04 14:45-15:15 UTC times are approximate Should be on IRLP

Bedford South School, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada and Cady Coleman Wed 2009-03-04 15:00-15:30 UTC times are approximate Should be on IRLP

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.

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

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 416. (***) Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 19. (***)

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 2009-02-25 21:00 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 2009-02-25 20:00 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.

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Exp. 18 on orbit: Michael Fincke KE5AIT Yury Lonchakov RA3DT Sandra Magnus KE5FYE

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

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