Dear club colleagues, I have received the email below from Colin M0NLP that you
may also be interested in.
As is mentioned in the email, you may want to listen for the ISS contact during
the time scheduled, 145.800MHz is the downlink frequency from the ISS, and you
should not transmit on this frequency during the contact with GB4YOTA as it may
stop them and others hearing the contact on that frequency.
Best regards
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: Gaston Bertels
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 22:01
To: colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ARISS
ARISS contact planned for YOTA, England
An International Space Station ARISS contact has been planned for astronaut
Paolo Nespoli IZ0JPA and the Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) event, which takes
place in UK.
The ARISS contact is scheduled Tuesday August 8, 2017 at approximately 18.38
UTC.
This will be a direct radio contact, operated by GB4YOTA.
Downlink signals will be audible in parts of Europe on 145.800 MHz narrowband
FM.
Moreover, Paolo Nespoli IZ0JPA will operate the HamVideo transmitter.
The Goonhilly receiver will be activated sometime Friday (4th August) and will
remain active over the weekend and continue to track the ISS until Wednesday
morning, 9th August. Goonhilly, will be one of several European HamTV reception
ground stations contributing to the reception of the HamTV signal for the
contact itself.
Two web streams will be available:
1. The normal ARISS/BATC website will be available at
https://ariss.batc.tv/hamtv This shows only the HamTV video downlink as an ;
output from the merger facility, with an indication of which registered HamTV
stations are providing signal input to the merger.
2. The ARISS Operations UK Team will be web streaming from the YOTA event
itself at https://ariss.batc.tv/ This web stream includes introductions and ;
presentations from the RSGB and the YOTA participants before the actual contact
itself according to the timetable of the event below.
The timetable of the event is as follows. ALL times are UTC times:
17:30 – All participants and guests to be present at the location. The event
web stream (https://ariss.batc.tv/) will start at approximately this time to
capture some of the build-up.
17:40 – Formal start of the RSGB/YOTA introductions and presentations.
18:20 – ARISS Operations in the UK take over the event, give the background to
what is happening, how it is organised and how all the different elements of
the contact are managed.
18:38 – Scheduled time for start of contact with Nespoli operating as NA1SS.
The YOTA participants will be using the GB4YOTA callsign.
18:50 – Approximate end of contact with Nespoli. After closing the contact, the
operator will invite RSGB/YOTA to formally close down the ARISS event.
YOTA Information:
The Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) event happens every summer and offers a
week-long range of wireless technology activities to 80 young people under the
age of 26. The youngsters are all representing their national amateur radio
societies and come from 28 countries located in IARU Region 1 (Europe, northern
Asia, Africa and the Middle East). This year there will also be a visiting team
from Japan.
The 2017 event takes place in the UK at Gilwell Park, the home of the Scouting
movement, and includes a special event station GB17YOTA, a transceiver kit
building workshop, some antenna building, an Amateur Radio Direction Finding
(ARDF) contest and a Summits on the Air (SOTA) activation. The youngsters will
be visiting Bletchley Park, the home of the Enigma code breakers, the National
Radio Centre, and the Science Museum in London.
Because the event is taking place at the home of Scouting, there will be around
1000 Scouts on site and we hope to have some of them join us for the ISS
contact.
Special callsign GB4YOTA will also be activated by ARISS for a special contact
with one of the astronauts on board the International Space Station.
ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer
support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the
ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, JAXA, and CSA.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of
Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on board the International
Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur
Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science,
technology, and learning.
73,
Gaston Bertels – ON4WF
ARISS Europe
