[Fwd: ISS configuration]

[Terry McCarty - WA5NTI]

ALCON -

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. 

Figured all of in AMRAD might be interested.


-- 
     Terry McCarty
    3t3 at comcast.net
   President - AMRAD
        wa5nti



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The ARISS onboard antenna is mounted on the bottom (Earth-facing side)
of the Columbus module, which is on the lower starboard side of the ISS.
(See the attached .JPG image).  There have been reports of temporary
signal drop-outs during recent ARISS contacts, especially over the U.K.,
and we suspect that it might be the result of antenna blockage by the
four vehicles that are currently docked to the bottom of the ISS.
So you also might notice some fading or drop-outs in the downlink
transmissions during the May 6 contact.

The following link has some onorbit video tours of the ISS by
astronaut Suni Williams that you might find to be of interest
if you haven't seen them before.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/suni_iss_tour.html



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