ARLA/CLUSTER: Contactos da ISS via Echolink e IRLP

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

ARISS ham radio contacts on Echolink and IRLP

There are three contacts scheduled for Monday 22 July, one actual and
two terrestrial training contacts as follows:

*Scuola Italiana di Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay* on Monday July
22nd, AOS is anticipated at 1139 UTC

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK5ZAI in South
Australia. The contact should be audible over Australia and the
Pacific. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz
downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in Italian.

The SIM is a prestigious educational institution in Uruguay, which has
a history of 125 years of uninterrupted work. Provides educational
services covering all cycles from the Nursery School to High School.
Its building infrastructure is established in an area of over 13
hectares, with large green spaces and vast locations closed and open.
Our organization has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification for the
"Design and provision of education for all school years" is the only
private educational institution in the country that has achieved this
award. The Scuola Italiana di Montevideo account for over fifteen
years with astronomical activities cut across the entire institution,
through the SIM Astronomical Observatory.

*Training CONTACT with Reid Wiseman – KF5LKT - Contact conducted in English*

*Training CONTACT with Alexander Gerst – KF5ONO - Contact conducted in
German and English*

Training contact is anticipated to be in the 1830 to 1930 UTC time period

This training session is in the middle of school holidays. Schools
were invited to propose students to participate to a conversation with
astronauts during their holidays.

The venue is in the Radio Club of Leuven, a city in Belgium.
Radio contact between Houston and Leuven is established over IRLP
(Internet Radio Linking Project), a worldwide amateur radio network
linking local amateur repeater stations. IRLP stations are operating
in VHF and UHF frequency bands.

Belgium counts two main Regions : Flanders in the North and Wallonia
in the South. Flanders is a Dutch speaking Region and Wallonia is a
French speaking Region. Leuven is in Flanders. The city is famous for
its Catholic University, founded in 1425.

Audio from all contacts will be fed into the:

EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377) and *JK1ZRW* (277208) servers

IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector

Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/

Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally transmitted around 20
minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of
the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground
station call to the ISS.

Please note that on Echolink there are automatic breaks of 1.5 seconds
in the audio transmission. These occur every 2.5 minutes during the
event. Breaks on IRLP are manual and occur approximately after every
third question.

* Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or
other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a
few minutes

73,

John - AG9D
ARISS Audio Distribution