An International Space Station Expedition 12 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at the Riverhead Central School District - Aquebogue School, Aquebogue, NY, USA on Tuesday, 24 January 2006.
The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:48 UTC.

On Wednesday, January 11, astronaut Garrett Reismann took and passed his amateur radio license exam. He has been issued the callsign KE5HAE.

On January 17, Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, attended a one hour refresher session with Kenneth Ransom at JSC. The session covered school contact procedures, general operating practices, and some hands on time spent practicing with the on board training hardware.

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm

Hello All,

Dureing the weekend (21 jan.) Fabiano PY5RX made
a short QSO with McArthur (NA1SS).
During his QSO Fabiano told Bill:
Greetings from ISSFANCLUB.
Bill replied: yes I copy QSL!

Also PY5RX his wife Juliana (PY5JMJ) made
a complete QSO with NA1SS.

You can here the audio recordings at:
http://pd0rkc.ontwikkel.nl/ISSAUDIO/21jan2006_PY5RX_NA1SS_issfanclub.mp3
http://pd0rkc.ontwikkel.nl/ISSAUDIO/21jan2006_PY5JMJ_NA1SS.mp3

73's Cor PD0RKC

An International Space Station Expedition 12 ARISS
school contact has been planned with students at the Riverhead Central School District - Aquebogue School, Aquebogue, NY, USA on Tuesday, 24 January
2006.The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:48 UTC.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg07426.html

According to reports on AMSAT-BB and SAREX, Bill McArthur has worked Alaska
and now has talked to all 50 states in the United States.

Congratulations Bill on getting WAS from space!

He continues to seek out new DXCC entities and can still use many from the
Caribbean. His current DXCC count as of Jan 17 was 68.

73,
Kenneth - N5VHO