An International Space Station Expedition 12 ARISS school contact has been
planned with students at Cincinnati Country Day School, Cincinnati, Ohio USA
on Wednesday, 1 March 2006. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately
19:02 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and VK5ZAI. The
contact should be audible to anyone in the Southwestern portions of
Australia. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz
downlink. Additional listening options aril listed below. The participants
are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Live audio from the Country Day School (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) ARISS contact with NA1SS will be available on IRLP "Discovery" Reflector. This event is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 @ 1902 UTC via VK5ZAI. The audio feed to 9010 will begin at 1853 UTC.

Streaming audio will also be available at the "Discovery" Reflectors companion website, www.discoveryreflector.ca (please note there is a 2-3 minute delay on this stream). A listing of upcoming Expedition 12 ARISS/IRLP events that will be distributed through 9010 is posted to the same website.

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

Hi,

I love this website, very nicely done! Can you help me with a few things regarding voice contact?

This past Saturday evening I had a real nice pass opportunity of about 10 minutes at an elevation of roughly 60 degrees. I know I wasn't using the best set up in the world… I was in a mobile (can't set two bands at once, either!) at 50 watts using a whip antenna. However, I had one channel in my radio set on the transmit freq and the channel next to it on the receive, plus a hand held scanner on the receive only to monitor the downlink. As the ISS entered the window, I started to hear digital signals like APRS or whatever, and it grew louder as the pass progressed, then faded as the time expired, so I assume it was ISS. In between bursts, which were spaced about 30 seconds apart, I tried a few quick calls on the transmit frequency to NA1SS, immediately switching the radio to the receive channel to listen, but never got a reply (no surprise really as they could have been busy, etc). As I am in Region 2, I used 145.800Mhz (FM) to hear the ISS and 144.490Mhz to transmit to the ISS. I notice also that the APRS/packet downlink frequency is 145.800Mhz, so here is where I get confused: