[ariss:216] AMSAT News Service Bulletin

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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 347.02
  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
December 13, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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ARISS Activity Reports

There has been confirmed reports of Packet activity on the ISS.
Monitor for it if you can and would like to perform packet ops
with the ISS.

SSTV signals are also planned for activity from the MAI-75
experiment.  Most signals will be near Moscow coverage area,
however, other coverage areas could be activated as well.
145.800 downlink should be monitored.

ISS SSTV Images Available On-Line

Cor PD0RKC has archived several ISS SSTV images from the
December 10 operation in the  ARISS SSTV gallery:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/

[ANS thanks,Tony, VK5ZAI & Ken, N5VHO, for this information]

/EX



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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 347.04
  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
December 13, 2009
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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) Status Report December 7, 2009

1. Upcoming School Contact

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact was scheduled with Scuola Primaria De Gasperi in
Noicattaro, Bari, Italy on Saturday, December 12 at 09:11 UTC.
Lesson plans have covered amateur radio communications and space
missions. Newspapers, radio and television, both local and
regional, will report on the event.

2. Astronaut Training Status - Simulated Contact Scheduled

A simulated Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact was planned for Tuesday, December 8 at
approximately 14:45 UTC. The contact took place between Deer
Creek Elementary School in Bailey, Colorado and astronaut Tracy
Caldwell, KF5DBF. Audio was available on IRLP (Internet Radio
Linking Project).    The training session is a terrestrial-
based amateur radio contact using ARISS equivalent equipment.

3. Successful ARISS Contact with Utah School

On Wednesday, December 2, students from Midvalley Elementary
School in Midvale, Utah participated in an Amateur Radio on
the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with Jeffrey
Williams, KD5TVQ. The school prepared for the contact using
NASA lesson plan resources and integrated the ARISS activity
into the school curriculum at many grade levels. Children
learned about amateur radio, electromagnetic waves and the
ISS and even viewed IMAX Space Station video.   Nineteen
questions were answered during the nine minute pass. Approximately
200 students were present for the contact and others
listened in from their classrooms.  Dr. David Doty (the school
district superintendent), school board members and district
directors were also present. Two major Salt Lake City newspapers,
the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret Morning News as well as
Channel 4 (ABC) television, Fox 13 and the local community
newspaper all covered the event. This was the first ARISS
contact for Utah.

4. ARISS-Brazil on Twitter

ARISS-Brazil is promoting ARISS events on its new Twitter site.
It provides an excellent opportunity to better understand what
the ARISS education program is. The site is in Portuguese:
http://twitter.com/arissbrazil

An ARISS-US member has also been posting ISS amateur radio
related items to a Twitter site. See: http://twitter.com/RF2Space

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]

/EX