An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Tokyo Denki University High/Junior High School, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan on 12 Sep. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:25 UTC.
The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.

The contact will be direct between NA1SS and JA1YQZ. The contact should be audible over Japan. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

The Tokyo Dendai (Tokyo Electric University) junior hogh/high school was established in 1948. Our school has about 1200 students and we have a ham club (Callsign is JA1YQZ.), the club has grown to ten member now. This question member is a member of these ham clubs.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:50:40 PM CDT

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