[bars] Listen to the downlink from the ISS on Friday Feb 5 @ 12:40

[Jon Turner]

Hi BARS members,

 

   

 

An ARISS <http://www.ariss.org/>  contact is scheduled for this Friday,
February 5th with students from the Ottawa Carleton District in Ottawa, ON,
Canada.  The contact will be a multipoint telebridge contact hosted by Fred
Kemmerer, AB1OC <https://qrz.com/db/AB1OC/> .  The astronaut is Mike
Hopkins, amateur radio call sign KF5LJG <https://qrz.com/db/KF5LJG/> .

The pre-contact program will begin around 12:20 pm local time and the ISS
will come over the horizon at about 12:40 pm local time. You can listen to
the downlink from the ISS on 145.800 MHz FM and you can watch the
pre-contact program and the contact on the ARISS YouTube channel via the
following link -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxm5Ca2y0HD_NxXlZWXv11A

I shared similar information of a past ARISS contact with BARS and heard the
downlink myself in my mobile while on the road.  There are different
frequencies for uplink and downlink so it is only possible for the public to
monitor the downlink.  The ISS will be overhead in our area for this
contact, so it will be easy to hear.  

One of the things I am doing now in ham radio is helping Fred Kemmerer, who
is the President of the Nashua Area Radio Society, work with schools to make
scheduled contacts with an astronaut on the International Space Station.
Fred is a designated ARISS mentor for the US.  ARISS is an organization that
coordinates Amateur Radio activities on the International Space Station.  I
am currently assisting Fred behind the scenes with testing and setting up
the ground infrastructure and internet connectivity needed to have students
who are remote to their school have successful contacts with the ISS.  We
have a project underway with a school in Nashua for a contact in a few
weeks.  

 

This is a link to the recent contact from RSU#21 in Maine

 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN70OpJFMgs
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN70OpJFMgs&feature=youtu.be>
&feature=youtu.be

 

Here is a link to a report from a TV station about a contact from a few
weeks ago with RSU#21 .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013JxlionCU

 

Here are other links on the contact you may find interesting.

 

https://www.wabi.tv/2021/01/22/maine-students-talk-with-astronaut-on-interna
tional-space-station/

 

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/education/kennebunk-students-ha
ve-an-out-of-this-world-experience-talking-to-an-astronaut-aboard-the-iss/97
-1a7a7bb5-19f9-4dbc-b353-e30b13c9f475

 

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/01/22/sea-road-students-chat-long-distance-
to-astronaut-on-the-international-space-station/

 

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/york-star/2021/01/22/sea-roa
d-school-students-talk-astronaut-space/4175367001/

 

I hope you find this interesting and are able to tune in to hear Ham Radio
>From Space.  (Insert echo effect here).

 

73 and stay safe (sane, too)

Jon Turner

AC1EV

 

 

 

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