Audio from the Cosmos Center Charleville, Queensland, Australia ARISS contact with NA1SS will be available on IRLP "Discovery" Reflector 9010. The event is scheduled to take place on February 17 2006 @ 0734 UTC via WH6PN (Honolulu, Hawaii,USA). Audio feed to 9010 will begin at 0725 UTC.

Streaming audio will also be available at www.discoveryreflector.ca. (Please note that there is a 2-3 minute delay on this feed.) A listing of upcoming ARISS/IRLP audio events is also available at the "Discovery" website.

This ARISS/IRLP Audio Distribution Project is supported by ARISS International.

73

Wayne, VE1WPH

The International Space Station (ISS) is in a higher orbit after a weekend boost from one of two unmanned cargo ships docked at the orbital platform.

A Russian-built Progress spacecraft fired its engines for eight minutes and 42 seconds to raise the space station's orbit up to about 215 statute miles, an increase of about one statute mile, NASA officials said. The maneuver will help place the ISS in position for the arrival of ISS Expedition 13 commander Pavel Vinogradov, flight engineer Jeffrey Williams and Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes in late March, they added.

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Last night I was tracking SuitSat (with a max. elev. 71 deg.) but nothing was heard. After SuitSat passed the TCA I switched
tracking object to ISS and hearing Bill was calling CQ to the Philippines several times with no answer, so I called NA1SS and
made a nice brief chat with Bill. He said this is his first contact with Taiwanese station.

Best Regards,

73 de Edward / BX1AD

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg07616.html

International Space Station Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, has topped 100 entities in his effort to complete DXCC from space. "Bill was able to work a few more stations prior to and just after the space walk that deployed SuitSat-1 and now has exceeded the 100 mark," says Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Ham Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO. Among the latest DXCC entities he worked from NA1SS were Brunei (V8), Chagos Island (VQ9), Falkland Islands (VP8), East Malaysia (9M6), Reunion (FR), Tajikistan (EY) and Trinidad & Tobago (9Y-9Z). Since DXCC rules make no provisions for contacts from space, McArthur will have to settle for an honorary DXCC certificate. One of the most active ISS crew members, McArthur also now holds the record for the most ARISS school group contacts at 24, and Expedition 12 still has approximately seven more weeks to go. McArthur has been on both VHF and UHF, and earlier completed Worked All Continents (WAC), including Antarctica, on both 2 meters and 70 cm. The worldwide VHF FM voice downlink frequency is 145.800 MHz. Voice uplink frequencies are 144.49 MHz for Regions 2 and 3 (the Americas, and the Pacific), and 145.20 MHz for Region 1 (Europe, Central Asia and Africa). Congratulations Bill, and keep it up!

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