The next contact between school students and the crew aboard the International Space Station will take place Thursday, 23 September 2004. Students at Investigator Science and Technology Centre, Adelaide, Australia will speak directly to astronaut Mike Fincke via amateur radio beginning about 0913 UTC.

Mike Finkce will be active on Oct 17 talking first to a school in Japan and then again on Oct 18 when he will be talking to the European Space Operations Centre(ESOC) in Darmstadt.

More details in the "read more" section.

Here is a photo of hurrican Ivan taken from the ISS.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040915.html

On Saturday, Sept. 11, Mike Fincke (KE5AIT) became the first crewmember of the International Space Station to talk to all 7 continents using amateur radio when he talked with Palmer Research Station (KC4AAC).

Mike Fincke has requested the ARISS team allow him to place the Kenwood radio in repeater mode sometime Saturday, Sept 11. The exact time depends on Mike's schedule of activities but will probably occur near the end of his work day.

As Kenneth N5VHO reports, ISS Amateur Radio has been powered off at 1700 UTC of today Sept 2nd for a scheduled Spacewalk.
Operations are supposed to restart at 1700 UTC on Sept 4th.