ARISS contact planned for school in Katerini, Greece

An International Space Station contact has been planned for cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI with a school in Katerini, Greece.

The event is scheduled Saturday April 29, 2017 at approximately 12.02 UTC.

The radio contact will be operated by SX2ISS.

Downlink signals will be audible in parts of Europe on 145.800 MHz

73 de IW2BSf - Rudy

27 Aprile : ISS contact planned for school in Thionville, France

An International Space Station contact has been planned for astronaut Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG with Lycée Hélène Boucher, Thionville, France

The event is scheduled Thursday April 27, 2017 at approximately 10:52 european local time

The radio contact will be operated by F8KGY.

Downlink signals audible ONLY in Europe on 145.800 MHz FM.

Moreover, HamTV will be activated. Video will be visible at http://www.batc.tv/iss/

73 de IW2BSF - Rudy

HamTV News from ISS

Live HAMTV France April 25-28

Daniel Cussen reported on the HamTV@yahoogroups list that there may be live HAMTV over France and Europe during the time period of April 25-28.
The date of a school contact is not yet set but it will be a daytime pass.

Audio may be on new VHF handheld not UHF.

ARISS expects have more definite news late next week.

HamVideo operational status aboard the ISS can be found at:
http://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/

Ham Video downlink frequencies:
+ 2369 MHz
+ 2395 MHz
+ 2422 MHz
+ 2437 MHz

It is unfortunate that the ISS has been transmitting back on 2m/VHF packet for less than 48 hours and already many unattended stations are transmitting their beacon every 30 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, etc. It is a selfish act of "I want to see that I was repeated" that takes place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

http://keepincalendar.com/April-12/Russian%20Cosmonaut%20Day/472
and also International Day of Human Space Flight
http://keepincalendar.com/April-12/International-Day-of-Human-Space-Flig...

I was really hoping for some celebrations and SSTV from the ISS today.

Hopefully they would be able to do something over the weekend?

Best 73

James / 2e1avx / M0JFP and in the US WO2I

14 April : ARISS contact planned for school in Bellême, France

An International Space Station contact has been planned for astronaut Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG with College Roger Martin Du Gard, Bellême, France.

The event is scheduled Friday April 14, 2017 at approximately 15.20 UTC.

The radio contact will be operated by F6KCO.

Downlink signals will be audible in parts of Europe on 145.800 MHz

73 de IW2BSF - Rudy

HamTV

On board Columbus, the HamVideo transmitter is fully operational and provides permanent DATV signals, allowing ground stations to fine tune their receiving equipment. When possible, ARISS school contacts are enhanced by crew operated HamTV.

The demand for a dedicated HamTV receiver is growing. Jean-Pierre Courjaud F6DZP developed an up-to-date receiver and wrote special software for HamTV. He dubbed the receiver TuTiouner and the software Tutioune (phonetic French transcript for “You tune”).