{"id":2547,"date":"2016-05-06T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2016-05-08T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T17:40:30","slug":"ariss-event-a-complete-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"ARISS Event A Complete Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ARISS event, despite a few funny gotyas up front, went off as planned. \u00a0A preprogram of comments and background began at 11:45, and at 12:43 the first call went out to NA1SS, the International Space Station. \u00a0With Hollywood-like suspense, Paula, an ASA student-ham, called SEVEN\u00a0times before the sound of Jeff Williams&#8217;s voice filled the auditorium to thunderous applause (ed: my personal take on the &#8220;suspense&#8221; was I hoped someone would perform CPR to restart my heart waiting 1min50sec before hearing\u00a0our astronaut).<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Williams was a real pro, both very personable talking to the kids, and moving things along at a quick pace. \u00a0As a consequence, all 24 questions were asked and answered. As Paula sent her 73&#8217;s, Jeff faded into the noise.<\/p>\n<p>All three local stations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc6.com\/story\/31912982\/middletown-students-contact-astronaut-in-space#.Vy0gZ8EZYBU.email\" target=\"_blank\">ABC6<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/middletown-students-converse-with-international-space-station\" target=\"_blank\">NBC10<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kmXSlKNxYuU\" target=\"_blank\">CBS12<\/a> had news coverage during their early 5-6PM shows. \u00a0They probably will have additional coverage at 11 PM. \u00a0In addition the live streaming is still up and will be for a few days. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been told that you need to move to the 3\u00a0hours 28 minutes 40 second mark before the actual event begins (the earlier hours were streaming a stationary antenna and some background noise &#8211; good thing internet isn&#8217;t billed by the minute). \u00a0The questions begin at 4h 13m 50s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/9685187\/events\/5301163\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/9685187\/events\/5301163&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1462665391784000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF7xv7xVSDwkS4yQEnVIimKEO6I2g\">http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/9685187\/events\/5301163<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all the NCRC members\u00a0that helped: \u00a0Chuck, N1CKT, Paul, N1PSX, Willy, W1LY, Paul K1YBE, Jim, KA1ZOU, Mike, KA1IOO, Brian, KC1EQB, Charles, K1ECU, Rob, KB1ZZU, Jeff, KA1NGP, Bob, WB4SON, and of course Mike Cullen, K1NPT, who put the entire event together.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2552\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NDN_20160507-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"wp-image-2552 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NDN_20160507-copy.jpg\" alt=\"NDN_20160507 copy\" width=\"472\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NDN_20160507-copy.jpg 472w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NDN_20160507-copy-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be sure to pick up a copy of The Newport Daily News which has a story on the front page!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Link to the online story:\u00a0http:\/\/www.newportri.com\/newportdailynews\/news\/page_one\/one-giant-step\/article_8316e623-adb5-526b-8ed1-6c568f6b9be3.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ARISS event, despite a few funny gotyas up front, went off as planned. \u00a0A preprogram of comments and background began at 11:45, and at 12:43 the first call went out to NA1SS, the International Space Station. \u00a0With Hollywood-like suspense, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,32,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ariss","category-iss","category-satellite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}