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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi BARS members,<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>An <a href="http://www.ariss.org/" target="_blank">ARISS</a> contact is scheduled for this Friday, February 19th with students from the Bishop Guertin HS in Nashua, NH. The contact will be a multipoint telebridge contact hosted by Fred Kemmerer, <a href="https://qrz.com/db/AB1OC/" target="_blank">AB1OC</a>. The astronaut is Shannon Walker, amateur radio call sign <a href="https://www.qrz.com/db/KD5DXB/"><span style='color:#41A62A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;text-decoration:none'>KD5DXB</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2B2B2B;background:white'>The pre-contact program for Bishop Guertin’s Contact will begin on Friday, February 18th, 2021 at 12:20 pm eastern time (17:20 UTC). The students at BGHS will be talking with astronaut </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/shannon-walker/biography/"><span style='color:#24890D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Shannon Walker</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2B2B2B;background:white'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><a href="https://www.qrz.com/db/KD5DXB/"><span style='color:#24890D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>KD5DXB</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2B2B2B;background:white'> who is onboard the ISS. The ISS will come over the horizon here in New Hampshire, USA at about 12:56 pm eastern time and will plan to make initial contact with Shannon then. You can listen to the downlink from the ISS on <b><i><u>145.800 MHz FM</u></i></b> and you can watch the pre-contact program and the contact on the ARISS YouTube channel via the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Dsel4_7gM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Dsel4_7gM</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'>If there are issues with the link try the ARISS You Tube page at this address:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxm5Ca2y0HD_NxXlZWXv11A">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxm5Ca2y0HD_NxXlZWXv11A</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'>The downlink can be heard on a handheld 2m radio, so if you are away from your shack, bring one with you and you can wow your friends and co-workers while you listen from radio signals from outer space!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'>This link is to an article on the Nashua Area Radio Society web site about this contact and NARS involvement with ARISS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><a href="https://www.n1fd.org/2021/02/12/bishop-guertin-iss/">https://www.n1fd.org/2021/02/12/bishop-guertin-iss/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you have a chance to listen in or watch on You Tube. I will pass on new links as they become available to this and other contacts of interest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>73,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jon Turner<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AC1EV<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003572'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>