This is the first year that the FT8 mode will be part of the ARRL RTTY Roundup. The newest version of the WSJT-X software, version 2.0, has been enhanced to support the contest exchange. See Joe Taylor’s QST article for details on how it will work.
AB1QB operating in a RTTY Contest
Fred, AB1OC and Anita, AB1QB will be hosting a multi-op entry using the N1FD callsign from their QTH. The contest starts at 18:00 UTC (1:00 pm EST) on Saturday and ends at 23:59 UTC (7 pm EST) on Sunday. The first few hours of the contest overlap with ARRL Kids Day so the kids will have priority on our main station. We may be able to operate in the RTTY Roundup using FT8 and our SteppIR Vertical.
If you are interested in signing up for a time slot, please contact Anita, AB1QB at [email protected]. Let her know what time you can be available to operate and how many hours you would like to operate. Please respond no later than Thursday. She will put together an operating schedule and send it out on Friday.
We hope to see you this weekend in the contest or hear you on the air!
Our ISS Crew Contact with the students from Hudson Memorial School is only about a day away. We have been testing on-site at Hudson Memorial School for the last 3 days. Our Primary and Backup stations are ready to go.
Primary and Backup ISS Contact Stations
Both the primary and backup antenna towers have been installed and tested.
Primary and Backup Antennas at Hudson Memorial School
We will be operating as N1FD and will be contacting astronaut Serena Aunon Chancellor, KG5TMT, who will be operating as NA1SS.
We will be Livestreaming Video from the school all day on Friday. Here’s our planned timeline for the event. All times EST.
8:30 am – Final Station Checkout Begins
12:30 pm – Students, Parents, and Visitors can ask questions about our contact and enjoy a tour of our stations and antennas.
1:15 pm – Dan, AC1EN with help from Fred, AB1OC will provide an introduction to our contact and will explain what will happen.
1:45 pm – The ISS will come over the horizon and our contact will begin.
2:00 pm – Students, Parents, and Visitors will have a final chance to look at our the stations and ask questions after our ISS Contact ends.
We will post a copy of the presentation materials that Dan and Fred will be covering before the contact here on our Blog tomorrow morning so that those who are watching our Livestream Video can follow along.
We will be sourcing at least two and possibly more live video streams during our contact. The main one will show the students communicating with the ISS. It will be the featured video at the top of the page at the link above. There will also be a video showing the primary and backup antennas as they track the ISS during our contact on this same page. There may be a stream from one of our members during the contact there as well.
Screen Display During the ISS Contact
The students and parents in the auditorium will be able to see a live video of the antennas, a satellite tracking view from MacDoppler as well as the rotor display on a screen in the auditorium. The display will be laid out as in the photo above.
Kenzie, KE1NZY (Shown with her Dad, AC1EN) earns her Extra License
One of the students asking a question will be Mackenzie Pooler, KE1NZY/AE, 10 years old, who just earned her Extra License last weekend!
Thanks so much to the NARS Team who has worked so hard this week to get everything set up and ready for our ISS Crew Contact!
We are all very excited about the contact and can’t wait to hear the Hudson Memorial School students have their questions answered by an astronaut on the International Space Station!
This past weekend, October 27th through the 29th, ARISS sent NASA images from the ISS over SSTV. The photos commemorated the NASA On the Air event celebrating the 60th anniversary of NASA.
To understand how we received the images, including a video showing an image being received, see this recent article on Receiving SSTV from the ISS
We kept the Satellite Station 3.0 running overnight, as the ISS passes started around 3:00 am and continued until mid-afternoon each day. By doing this, we were able to receive all 12 images that were sent. You can see the images in the Gallery below:
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