ARLA/CLUSTER: Hamvention e ARISS trabalham em conjunto

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Hamvention and ARISS work together

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Stationteam (ARISS) is
pleased to announce that it is working together again with Hamvention
this year. Hamvention’s 2019 theme is, “Mentoring the Next
Generation.”

ARISS’s mission is all about mentoring and inspiring. Tens of
thousands of people have been touched by the program: students,
educators, community members, and new hams--all wanting to explore
STEM and Amateur Radio through ARISS.

Hamvention’s support to ARISS began with approval for their first-ever
ARISS Forum; it is Friday at 1:15-2:15 PM in Room 3. A group of
speakers will present current and future lifelong learning activities
for hams and students via ARISS SSTV, APRS, voice repeaters, radio
experiments and robots.

Attendees will hear about the next gen on-orbit hardware systems,
updates on school activities, ARISS’s visionary initiative to fly ham
radio on the human spaceflight lunar Gateway, how to maximize hams’
opportunities to make ARISS connections and listen to the ISS crew in
home stations, and meet special guests.

Hamvention will boost up ARISS by once again featuring a special
ticket-drawing just minutes before the convention’s famous Sunday
drawing for bonus prizes. One ticket will be pulled from the drum for
a lucky person to win an ARISS display case with coins.
ARISS donated two ARISS Challenge Coins positioned side by side,
showcased in a handsome wooden case with a brass plate. A challenge
coin is the premium received by donors who give $100 or more to ARISS;
the case allows the view of each of the coin’s sides. The winning
ticket will be tossed in the drum for a chance at all other prizes.
2019

Hamvention Prize Committee Chair Liz Clinc, KE8FMJ, wrote,
“I will give you [ARISS] the same spot [at Sunday’s prize event] as in
previous years. As a collector of challenge coins, myself, I think
this is a fabulous thing you do.”

The ARISS team welcomes Hamvention-goers at the ARISS booth in
Building 1. A version will be featured of the Multi-Voltage Power
Supply (MVPS) that ARISS will launch to replace the current aging ISS
amateur radio station. ARISS hopes to boost its 2019 fund-raising
campaign to help with the expensive space-rated parts required to
finish building the MVPS units, and some costs of continuing ARISS
operations. When Hamvention visitors donate $10, they will receive a
new ARISS lapel pin and a chance in a raffle to win an ARISS Challenge
Coin--the winning ticket to be drawn at the booth, 10:30 AM Sunday;
the winner need not be present.

For those unable to travel to Xenia, readers can donate any amount
right now by going to http://www.ariss.org/donate.html And
surprise­­—if you donate after May 16 on FundRazr.com, an anonymous
benefactor will match your amount dollar for dollar, for which ARISS
is very grateful. The match ends July 17, 2019.

ARISS thanked everyone on the Hamvention staff whose efforts are
aiding ARISS in its publicity and fund-raising goals. ARRL ARISS-US
Delegate Rosalie White, K1STO, added: “We are so pleased and proud to
know that Hamvention believes in the ARISS team and its goals of
inspiring and mentoring STEM and Amateur Radio.”



About ARISS

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station(ARISS) is a
cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the
space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In
the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS
National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing
scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the
ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during
these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities
learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more
information, seewww.ariss.org.

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