Wednesday ISS school contact relayed on echolink, irlp, eqso and over the internet

The International Space Station Expedition 11 crew's first ARISS school contact will be with students at Albany Hills State School, Brisbane, Australia on Wednesday, 4 May 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:49 UTC.

This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and NN1SS in Greenbelt, Maryland USA, so it should be audible to anyone in the Mid-Atlantic area of the United States and southern portions of Ontario and Quebec Canada listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants will conduct the conversation in English.

Further information can be found on ARISS' website at
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm. More information will be posted closer to contact.

Every effort will be made to make this contact available via both EchoLink and IRLP. As usual the QSO will be made available in EchoLink conference rooms AMSAT and EDU_NET. IRLP availability has changed.
Please note:

IRLP Host Reflector: 9010 "Discovery" Reflector (see note)
Time of Connection (to Reflector): 0740 UTC

Participating School: Albany Hills State School
Location: Brisbane, Australia School Contact Time (with ISS): 0749 UTC

This will be a telebridge supported contact via ground station NNISS located in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

The live audio from the contact described below will be streamed by MCI, assuming that all goes well. To get the audio from the Internet, go to:

https://e-meetings.mci.com

There, select:
Audio conferencing
Audio streaming
Join

The conference room number is: 158 7 508

The Passcode is: SPACESTATIO

Note:

All future ARISS/IRLP distributed contacts will be hosted by the 9010 "Discovery" Reflector and be fed to its main channel (DTMF entry 9010). In addition because of increased bandwidth that is avaliable to 0910, pre-registration is no longer required!

Simply join the reflector with the assigned DTMF input. Please ensure that the connecting Node has its "timeout" timer disabled. This will allow the Node to remain connected to the Reflector for the duration of the contact.

Please contact Wayne Harasimovitch at ve1wph@rac.ca regarding any IRLP questions. Thank you for your interest in this ARISS/IRLP distribution project.

Thank you & 73,
Scott H. Stevens / N3ASA
ARISS Team Member

Thanks to Ian, G3ZHI for this item

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