Archive - 2006
December 6th
ISS Radio Report
ARISS Event - Erweiterte Realschule Weiskirchen, Germany, Fri (Dec 8) at 21:50 UTC
An International Space Station Expedition 14 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Erweiterte Realschule Weiskirchen, Germany on Friday 8 Dec. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 21:50 UTC.
The contact will be a direct between stations RS0ISS and DN1ERW . The contact should be audible in most of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. Additional listening options are listed below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in German.
do i need a tnc to receive packet ?
hi,
iv been listening to the iss for a few months now, and was a regular listener when bill mcarthur was on board. it was great to hear bill as he always seemed to be on the radio.
i see that the packet radio seems to be back up and running.
i have never received packet signals before.
i am only a listener and keen to receive any signals i can from the iss.
this morning i downloaded winpack, and am presently reading up how to set it all up.
my question is..... do i need a tnc to receive packet signals?, or is there any software that i can just use my radio and my soundcard to receive packet?
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December 5th
ISS Radio Report
ISS Radio Report
Toothaches, Extraterrestrials Topics in Ham Radio Chats with ISS Crew Members
Toothaches in space and the possibility of intelligent life on other planets were among the topics that piqued the curiosity of students in Germany and Canada when they spoke via ham radio with the ISS. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program arranged the back-to-back contacts on November 20. During what may have been the first-ever ARISS school contact in German, youngsters gathered at the Museum for Industry in Mannheim, Germany, to speak with European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, DF4TR. One wanted to know what would happen if he or one of the other ISS crew members developed a toothache.
NASA 'Lab-on-a-Chip' technology to begin journey to spacestation
A unique, state-of-the-art science instrument -- one that couldrevolutionize how astronauts conduct chemical and biological research inspace -- awaits launch this week aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
Developed by a science team led by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centerin Huntsville, Ala., the Lab-On-a-Chip Application Development PortableTest System, or LOCAD-PTS, is part of the STS-116 mission's sciencepayload, bound Dec. 7 for the International Space Station.
Source http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg00139.html