Oleg Kononenko RN3DX

ISS Star City School contact - 23 April

There will be an International Space Station (ISS) school contact on Wednesday at 09:24 UTC (10:24 BST).

The space station should be receiveable in the United Kingdom at that time on 145.800 MHz FM.

Ian G3ZHI has provided the following information about hearing both sides of the contact via Echolink:

On Wednesday, 23 April 2008, starting at approximately 09:24 UTC, there will be an ARISS contact between Oleg Kononenko RN3DX using the call sign OR4ISS on the ISS and the Star City School, Russia via the telebridge amateur radio ground station ON4ISS in Belgium. Please join us in listening to this event.

The audio for this event will be fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) Conference Room servers by Gaston Bertels ON4WF. This being a bridge contact, the audio from this event is expected to also be fed into the IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010. We hope to have good two way audio from this contact.

As we do normally, as soon as audio is suitable for transmission over amateur radio, we start feeding audio of set up activities from about 25 minutes prior to the start of the actual contact into EchoLink for listeners who enjoy listening in on these proceedings.

Please note that there are automatic breaks in the audio transmission every 2.5 minutes during the event and while we listen to preparations going on for this contact. Each audio break is approximately 1 second long.

Please configure your systems to not time out during times of inactivity or ongoing audio transmissions.

73 de Dieter KX4Y

Dieter K. Schliemann, KX4Y - ZS6BBH - HS0ZCN
ARISS EchoLink audio feed team member