An International Space Station Expedition 17 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Schulehaus Feld 1 Richterswil, Switzerland on 30 August. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 1353 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge contact between stations NA1SS and VK4KHZ. The contact should be audible over Eastern Australia. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Richterswil is situated at the lake of Zurich. Although it is not very big it has 4 train stations and direct access to the "Autobahn", the freeway, which is part of the national street system. Some of the approximately 11000 inhabitants work in Zurich, which is about 30 kilometers away. Others are employed at one of the local firms or have jobs in the neighboring towns and villages. There are five schools and several kindergardens. Richterswil hosts its own museum and many different organizations such as sports clubs, a woman's club, a parent's organization, a theatre group, several choirs and more. Every year on the second Saturday in November the "Räbechilbi" takes place. It is a huge turnip fair (actually the biggest in the world), where pictures made of turnips and lit by candles are pulled through the town by school children and the members of our many clubs. This event is always visited by thousands of people, locals as well as tourists.

Hey

OK i'm newish to ham radio but never tried to listen to the iss. But i have a problem the uplink freq is also the same as the aprs freq here not aure what to do can anyone help.

Thanks

Nick

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. Successful ARISS Contact with Los Padres Scouts
3. Challenger Learning Center - ARISS Presentation
4. ARISS International Meeting Held

1. Upcoming School Contacts
Schulehaus Feld 1 in Richterswil, Switzerland has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Saturday, August 30 at 13:53 UTC. Telebridge station VK4KHZ in Queensland, Australia will assist with the contact. To prepare for the contact, fifth graders covered the solar system and space in their studies and composed questions during their English classes. The ARISS contact will be part of a large public event covering several aspects of communication. The school will be part of a project involving radio clubs, the army, the fire brigade, rescue teams and many others. Reporters from newspapers, television and radio stations will be on site.

I just checked Amsat website,I know that the crew hasn't had the D700 in APRS mode but Amsat has a listing,Mode V APRS World Wide Aprs Digi.Up/Down Link of 145.825 and the they say it is operational.Is Amsat up to date?

TNX Dave KB0OWD an avid APRS user

TEHRAN, Iran â€" State TV says Iran's space agency aims to send an astronaut to space within 10 years.

The report Thursday quotes Space Agency chief Reza Taghipoor saying the mission's timing will be decided over the next year. It gives no other details.

Iran has stepped up its space ambitions in recent years, worrying world leaders already concerned about its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Iran would have a ways to go before a manned flight. On Sunday, Taghipoor said Iran test-fired a rocket capable of carrying a satellite into orbit. The two-stage rocket released equipment that beamed flight data back to ground control.

NASA rolled the orbiter Atlantis from its processing hangar into the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building Friday, finally getting enough of a break from the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay to move the spaceship from one building to another.

The quarter-mile move set the stage for a huge milestone in just about seven days.

Mated with an external tank and attached solid rocket boosters, the fully assembled shuttle will creep out to launch pad 39A next weekend, in advance of NASA's fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope service mission.

Tropical Storm Fay lingered over Central Florida and parts of KSC - much less than the 23 inches recorded on the south end of neighboring Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.