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The following is an extract of a recent email I have extracted from our
Woodbridge Amateur Radio Club's effort teaching 5-th graders in a
Prince William County School about Ham Radio. <br>
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Terry McCarty
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:3t3@comcast.net">3t3@comcast.net</a>
President - AMRAD
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The ARISS onboard antenna is mounted on the bottom (Earth-facing side)<br>
of the Columbus module, which is on the lower starboard side of the ISS.<br>
(See the attached .JPG image). There have been reports of temporary<br>
signal drop-outs during recent ARISS contacts, especially over the U.K.,<br>
and we suspect that it might be the result of antenna blockage by the<br>
four vehicles that are currently docked to the bottom of the ISS.<br>
So you also might notice some fading or drop-outs in the downlink<br>
transmissions during the May 6 contact.<br>
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The following link has some onorbit video tours of the ISS by<br>
astronaut Suni Williams that you might find to be of interest<br>
if you haven't seen them before.<br>
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href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/suni_iss_tour.html">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/suni_iss_tour.html</a><br>
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