An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Christian Life Elementary School, Rockford, Illinois, USA on 25 April. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:21 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and N9SH. The contact should be audible in central and Eastern portions of North America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English. Additional listening options are listed below.

Christian Life Schools is a nationally accredited private school that serves Pre-K through 12th grade students and its staff and faculty are certified teachers. The school is located in the northeast side of Rockford, Illinois which is 90 miles west of Chicago. The student body is made up of students from the surrounding Rockford area; as well as, southern Wisconsin families. Students participate in several after school activities such as: Football, Basketball, Track, Baseball, Softball, Scholastic Bowl, Chess Club, Math Olympics, Science Olympiad, Cheerleading, and Student Council. Graduates from Christian Life have moved on to: community colleges, state universities, and the military.

i understand that although the tmd700 is working is has a fault condition

a possible solution would be to reprogam the radio using a laptop
and people are trying to get the project approved
but it is difficult

like many others i would like to see it back on crossband repeater mode

the tmd700 is not manually easy to program even when you have the manual in front of
you and you are on the ground

we live in hope

73 ian

www.qsl.net/g3zhi

Students from four European schools will have the opportunity to talk with US astronaut Sunita Williams KD5PLB over amateur radio in the next two weeks:

• Monday April 23 at 14:50 UTC : Scuola Europea Varese, located near Milan, Italy

• Saturday April 28 at 14:19 UTC: Samuel-von-Pufendorf Gymnasium, located in Floeha, Germany

• Saturday May 5 at 10:24 UTC: Liceo Scientifico Statale "Lorenzo Respighi", Piacenza, Italy

• Saturday May 5 at 13:34 UTC: Erweiterte Realschule Weiskirchen, Germany.

The school in Varese will benefit from a "telebridge" operated by the Australian ARISS groundstation VK4KHZ.