The International Space Station

World Jamboree Scouts set to talk to International Space Station astronauts

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been planned for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in Chelmsford, England.

A Special Event Station, GB100J, will operate at the Jamboree from July 27 to August 8, 2007. Approximately 40,000 scouts from 200 countries are expected to attend this event. The audio will be broadcast on the Jamboree FM Radio Station and will be webcast on the radio station’s website.

It will also be fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and
JK1ZRW (277 208) servers, but it is unlikely that it will be fed into the IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.

The contact will take place on Saturday, August 4 at 21:10 UTC.