An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Newcomers Club in Saitama, Iruma, Sitama, Japan on 15 November. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 1028 UTC.

The contact will be a direct contact between stations NA1SS and JK1ZAM. The contact should be audible over eastern Asia. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

After the first school contact in Japan, many children wanted to get their amateur license. In Saitama area, about 30 children got the amateur licenses. Therefore, we organized the newcomers club and applied for the school contact. Already we are teaching about the orbit of a satellite and so on. Also, the students are learning how to QSO.