Ham Radio - Talk to the Astronauts this week

[Tad]

I had clear reception today in NOVA for about 10 minutes.  Pretty
cool.   Thanks for the heads-up.

-Tad

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:50 AM, 3t3 <3t3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> QST -
>
> AMRAD area to have two ARISS contact passes this week
>
> What is ARISS?
>
> The ARISS program is a cooperative venture of Ham Radio and NASA (NASA, the
> ARRL and AMSAT) and other international space agencies that organizes
> scheduled contacts via Amateur Radio between children and astronauts &
> cosmonauts aboard the ISS (International Space Station).
>
> With the help of experienced volunteers from Amateur Radio clubs, and
> coordination from the ARISS Team, the ISS crew members speak directly with
> audiences in a variety of public forums such as school assemblies or at
> science museums, Scout camporees and jamborees and space camps.
>
> There will be two ARISS contacts over your area this week, and we should be
> able to copy the 145.80 MHz downlink on both passes.
>
> The first will be tomorrow (Monday, July 23) with the Women in Engineering
> at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (W2RIT).  It will be
> a descending pass (northwest to southeast), peaking northeast of Manassas.
> Here are the times for the Prince William County area, with AOS (acquisition
> of signal) LOS (loss of signal) data:
>
>                      AZ/EL
> AOS:  13:31:45 UTC  315/0   (AOS for the school will be 13:30:57)
> PEAK: 13:36:59 UTC   31/30
> LOS:  13:42:10 UTC  106/0
>
> The second one will be on Thursday (July 26) with the Virginia Air and Space
> Center in Hampton (KE4ZXW).  It will be a descending pass again, but peaking
> southwest of Manassas this time.
>
>                      AZ/EL
> AOS:  14:06:28 UTC  297/0   (AOS for the school will be 14:06:54)
> PEAK: 14:11:30 UTC  228/23
> LOS:  14:16:28 UTC  159/0
>
> It will be a female astronaut at the mic on both of these contacts (Sunita
> Williams).  She is one of the Expedition 32 crew members that arrived
> onboard the ISS last week (July 17). (See her bio below.)
>
> http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html
>
> So listen in on the downlink frequencies for these contacts, it should be
> informative and fun !.
>
> --
>      Terry McCarty
>     3t3 at comcast.net
>         wa5nti
>
>
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