Hello all,
I'll be doing a telebridge link-up between the ISS and the Iroquois Middle School in New York, USA this Monday 16th May at 17:50 UTC (Tuesday morning at 3:20 am Sth. Aust. time).
The downlink is on 145.800 Mhz. and should be readable over most of Australia. You are invited to listen in. (don't forget to set the alarm !!)

Best regards,
Tony.

J.A.Hutchison. VK5ZAI
P.O Box 470
KINGSTON SE. 5275
South Australia

Australian ARISS Co-ordinator
web site :- http://www.electric-web.org

Photos of Astronaut John Phillips on the ISS speaking with students of the Albany Hills School in Brisbane are on the NASA web site at :
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-11/ndxpage15.html

The story and photos of the students is on the ARRL web site at :
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/05/2/?nc=1

12 students of Hosokawa junior high school prepared 24 questions for ISS astronaut John Phillips. They asked him 22 of those questions, which he answered before the Space Station dropped below the horizon.

Audience:
Students: 300
Others (including parents) : 100
TV Station: 1 (Local cable TV)
Newspapers: 2

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm

International Space Station Expedition 11's next ARISS school contact will be with students at Hosokawa Junior High School, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan on Monday, 9 May 2005.
The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:00 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and 8N3H in Osaka, Japan, so it should be audible to anyone in the area to people listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants will conduct the conversation in English.

The International Space Station Expedition 11 crew's first ARISS school contact will be with students at Albany Hills State School, Brisbane, Australia on Wednesday, 4 May 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:49 UTC.

The following report is from the ARISS Europe coordinator.
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The ARISS School Contact with the school at Richterswil in Switzerland has been performed today 19 April 2005 in excellent conditions.

Received by Scott H. Stevens, N3ASA:

The next International Space Station's Expedition 10 ARISS school contact will be with students at Schulhaus Feld 1, Richterswil CH-8805, Switzerland on Tuesday, 19 April 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:36 UTC.

Received by Scott H. Stevens, N3ASA:

The next International Space Station's Expedition 10 ARISS school contact will be with students at two schools, Istituto Tecnico Industriale Liceo scientifico Tecnologico "Guglielmo Marconi� (IK0WGF) in Civitavecchia, Italy and Ist.Tecn.Comm. "Einaudi-Mattei� (IW3QKU) in Palmanova, Italy on Monday, 18 April 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:45 UTC.

Received from Scott H. Stevens, N3ASA:

The next International Space Station's Expedition 10 ARISS school contact will be with students at the Ft. Ross Elementary School in Cazadero, California on Friday, 15 April 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:07 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and WA6M, so it should be audible to anyone in western portions of the United States listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink.

Received from Scott H. Stevens, N3ASA:

The next International Space Station's Expedition 10 ARISS school contact will be with students at the Maple Avenue Elementary School in Goffstown, New Hampshire on Wednesday, 13 April 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 15:46 UTC.