[LM_NET] Space Station & Students to Chat on Wednesday

["Scott H. Stevens" <shstevens@SUSCOM.NET>]

For any schools that want to give their students a 
Thanksgiving Day treat the next contact between school 
students and the crew aboard the International Space 
Station will take place Wednesday, 24 November 2004. 
Students at Westhampton Beach Elementary School, 
Westhampton Beach, New York, USA will speak directly to 
the space station crew via amateur radio beginning about 
1815 UTC or 1:15pm local time.  This will be the first 
North American contact of the school year.

Anyone with a radio (scanner or ham radio) can tune in the 
space station side of the contact on 145.80 MHz. The ISS 
callsign is NA1SS and the school’s station is W2AMC.  The 
ISS should be audible to areas of southern New England, 
parts of the Mid-Atlantic, and southern Ontario and 
Quebec.

The entire contact takes about 10 minutes as the space 
station passes overhead.  For further information on this 
and other upcoming contacts, take a look at 
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt

ARISS is an international educational outreach program 
with US participation from NASA, AMSAT (The Amateur 
Satellite Radio Corp.), and the American Radio Relay 
League. 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 experience, 
first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can 
energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and 
learning. Further information on the ARISS programme is 
available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss

Thank you & 73,
Scott H. Stevens / N3ASA
ARISS Team Member
n3asa@arrl.net

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