US astronaut Mike Fincke KE5AIT

Students in India experience successful contact

On Wednesday, January 7, youth from Axam Jatiya Vidyalaya in Guwahati, India spoke with Mike Fincke, KE5AIT on the ISS.

During the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact, students asked 14 questions as 1000 students, parents and guests looked on.
All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) officials, Mr Brindaban Goswami and many other Guwahati dignitaries attended the
event.

The contact was facilitated by the telebridge station W6SRJ in California. The audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers and received eight connections including three link nodes and one repeater from five countries.

The news was reported on television and in the newspapers. The Assam Tribune posted an article to its Web site:
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/
details.asp?id=jan0809/at01

The headliner with photos may be found here:
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/
details.asp?id=jan0809/main