FYI:

"No foolin' Starting to hear rumors about some ISS SSTV activity in April. Not enough specifics to share yet...but hoping soon!"

https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/715940020633337856

New link between the International Space Station and a Land school, it is the Kiilinik High School in Cambridge Bay in Canada.

The connection of the evening April 6, 2016 at 18:02 utc will be 20:02 in Italy.

The duration of contact will approssimamente of 9 minutes and will be in radio link with the Australian station VK5KHZ contact will be made in the English language in the downlink on 145.800mhz narrow band FM good listenable in parts of Australia.

For us in Italy the contact is ensured on the EchoLink AMSAT 101377 node and Discovery 9010 node will also listen via the internet

Hi.
¿There will be more contacts with amateur radio operators around the world besides contacts with schools?

Thanks.

Well its been over a week since the #yearinspace crew landed after 340 days in space. This mission was unlike anything we have seen since the 1990's this mission broke so many records so lets talk about them.

ARISS..... contatti con le scuole, bel video del collega OM l'astronauta Tim Peake :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-yHD9lVbH8&feature=youtu.be

e del nostro mitico (anche lui OM ) Luca Parmitano :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwtLkTpgNMM&feature=youtu.be

73 de Rudy - IW2BSF

Astronaut Tim Peake made a video showing the amateur radio equipment in the ISS Columbus module.
During the video the ISS Ericsson handheld radio, the white packet modem and
DATV transmitter is visible.
Tim Peake also talks about the ARISS school contacts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-yHD9lVbH8

Recently ARISS celebrated the 1000th ARISS contact.
A story is written on the NASA website:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ariss_students
Source: https://twitter.com/rf2space

73's Cor PD0RKC

March 10, 2016

Today the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station team (ARISS team) proudly celebrated its 1000th school radio contact!

The second school contact is scheduled at 16:11:05 UTC with visitors at the Atlanta Science Festival, Atlanta, Georgia - USA

The event is in telebridge via ground station K6DUE and the signals from Space will be audible over U.S.A. on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM.

not udible in Europe !

best 73 de Rudy - IW2BSF

Blog link: http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/iss-to-powys-secondary-s...

My recording: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ww11i7c20s5nmc2/Tim%20ISS%205-3-16.m4a?dl=0

Echolink audio: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ww11i7c20s5nmc2/Tim%20ISS%205-3-16.m4a?dl=0

A direct contact with students at Powys Secondary Schools, Mid Wales, UK is scheduled for Sat 2016-03-0510:55:19 UTC 59 deg.The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake, KG5BVI.

Will ARISS celebrate the 1000th contact this week with the ISS!!..Currently at [997] successful contacts with 3 more Upcoming contacts this week!!

Successful ARISS schools
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Each school is assigned an event number and a [contact number]. A contact number may be shared by multiple events.

Event# / School Name City State/ Province Country Date/Time Direct/ Ground op ARISS ISS Op ISS Station Expedition Contact# Telebridge mentor