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Featured, General, Newsletter, Space, Youth Activities

ISS Crew Contact Part 4 – Date and Time for Our Contact!

We have just received word from our ARISS Mentor, Dave Jordan, AA4KN – Our ISS Crew Contact will take place on Friday, December 7th at approximately 1:45 pm EST. Activities on-site will begin with some videos and station tours before the contact.

Serena M. Aunon - NASA Astronaut
Serena Aunon-Chancellor – NASA Astronaut

We will be using the Nashua Area Radio Society callsign, N1FD, for our contact with NA1SS. We believe that our contact will be with Serena Aunon-Chancellor, KG5TMT. We are all very, very excited to hear the news!

Prioritized ISS Passes for our Crew Contact
Prioritized ISS Passes for our Crew Contact

This date/time was our second choice and the ISS will be on a good pass reaching a maximum elevation of 48 degrees at Time of Closest Approach (TCA). Our contact with the ISS will last about 10 minutes.

Our plan is to begin the final set up of our equipment on Monday, December 3rd at Hudson Memorial School (HMS). We will be Live Streaming the setup and testing of our Station at HMS as well as our actual contact via the Nashua Area Radio Society Facebook page.

Click on the image above to view the video from our ISS contact!

Fred, AB1OC

ARISS Contact Press Release

Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter, Space, Youth Activities

ISS Crew Contact Part 1 – Ground Station Design and Construction

Our planned ISS Crew Contact is almost here! It will take place sometime during the first week of December (December 3rd – 8th) and we are busy finalizing our Ground Station and preparing for our contact. The link below is the first in a series of articles that are planned to describe steps in this project and the actual contact experience. The first article explains the Design, Construction, and Testing of the two Ground Stations that are required as well as plans for connecting them to the Audio-Video and Data systems at the school.

Source: ISS Crew Contact Part 1 – Ground Station Design and Construction

Fred, AB1OC

Digital, Featured, General, Newsletter, Space

An Amazing Recovery: ARISS Packet System Revives

Similar to the AO-7 satellite resurrection several years ago, the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) packet radio system on the International Space Station (ISS) has begun working again. NASA ISS Ham Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO, said over the weekend that reports he’d received indicated that the NA1SS packet signal returned in mid-August.

Source: An Amazing Recovery: ARISS Packet System Revives

It appears that the 2m APRS digipeater on the ISS has come back to life! We’ll see if we can’t set up the digital side of our Portable Satellite Station at our Amateur Radio Exposition for Young People at the Boxboro Convention in September and give it a try!

Fred, AB1OC

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