Category Archives: ARISS

NCRC Meeting Mon July 12 at 7 PM

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NCRC will be having our regular monthly meeting via ZOOM on Monday July 12 starting at 7 PM.  Members will be receiving an invitation via email.  If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact WB4SON at gmail.com

In addition to the regular business items, we will have some preliminary results for Field Day. Our guest speaker will be Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC, who will give a presentation entitled “Programs Helping Hams and Young People to Develop New Skills and Get on The Air”.  Fred is the current president of the Nashua Area Radio Society (voted best club in America for 2019).  He is also a technical mentor for ARISS, and a strong believer in education.  Fred is running for the ARRL New England Director position this fall.

Pell Space Chat A Success!

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RI’s Third Space Chat, the first for a public elementary school, was completed successfully today, October 2nd, at about 1:55 PM.

The live stream has completed. You can watch the entire 30+ minute program here (the kid’s questions begin at the 26 minute mark):

 

WLNE News Story on Pell Space Chat Oct 2 at 6 PM

WPRI News Story on Pell Space Chat Oct 2 at 6 PM

 

NCRC member Mike Cullen, K1NPT, is the moderator of this his third ARISS event.  Paul Fredette K1YBE, is handling the telebridge audio details.

The contact was handled on the ground by Jan ON4ISS in Belgium.  Fifteen questions were successfully asked/answered, including two by Governor Gina Raimondo.

Congratulations to Mike and all those that worked for 11 months on this successful contact.

Congratulations BHHS/SMBVA on Successful ARISS Contact

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With usual precision, Mike K1NPT, guided Bishop Hendrickson High School and Saint Mary’s Bay View Academy students through a successful contact with Italian Astronaut Paolo Nespoli, using the radio station of Claudio IK1SLD in Italy via Telebridge.

Approximately 400 students at BHHS and another 500 at BVA saw the event live.  Other joined in via a live stream to see history in the making.

Molly asks a question during the BHHS/BVA ARISS Event. Event Manager Mike K1NPT to her rightLocal station WLNE-6 news had nice coverage of the program here

YouTube video of Q&A Period here

BHHS ARISS Contact Thursday Nov 30 at noon.

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Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, IZ0JPA — currently aboard the International Space Station — is scheduled to talk to 16 lucky students from Bishop Hendricken High School and St. Mary Academy – Bay View this Thursday Nov 30th at noon.

Paolo Nespoli

RI students and the general public are invited to watch the livestream of the event starting at 1140AM via https://livestream.com/accounts/9685187/events/7946215

Claudio, IK1SLD,  will be operating the ground station and linking to Bishop Hendricken via telebridge.  The student questions are expected to begin around 12:04PM.

Bishop Hendricken is expected to become RI’s first high school to have such a contact. 

This opportunity comes from the volunteers at Rhode Island STEAM Academy who view early and regular exposure to STEAM problem-solving as critical to the growth of Rhode Island’s economy.

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Celebrate 20 years of ARISS by receiving SSTV images from the ISS

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Beginning around 21:25 UTC on Thursday July 20, the ISS will be broadcasting SSTV images (using SSTV Mode PD 120 or PD 180) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of ARISS.  SSTV images will be sent at 145.80 MHz FM using the highest power radio and best antenna in the ISS.  Signals are so strong that typical external antennas will have no issue producing S9 signal levels.  The event is expected to continue over a 2 day period.

If you have a soundcard interface of some kind for your FM radio, you can use a free software program called MMSSTV, which can be downloaded here: http://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php

A lot of good information on using MMSSTV with the ISS SSTV signals can be found on the ISS Fan Club page here:  https://www.issfanclub.com/node/9802

Another reference can be found here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/

The next several days of ISS passes over our area are shown below (times in UTC, so subtract 4 hours for local time — the first pass over our area after the event start is Friday July 21 at 02:56 UTC, which is actually 10:56 PM on Thursday July 20):