ISS Amateur radio contact Friday Morning

Another opportunity tomorrow. Information courtesy of the South Dublin Radio Club.

The downlink should be available anywhere in the country. I just about picked it up last time with a handheld scanner and the stock antenna.

Tomorrow (Friday) at 2:43pm there will be a school contact in the UK
which should be audible over Dublin (questions below)

Last weeks school contact has been uploaded to youtube and you can
view it and more info here:
amsat-uk.org/2016/02/23/video-tim-peake-oasis-brightstowe/

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ARISS contact planned for school in Norwich, UK

Friday 26 February 2016, at approximately 14:43 UTC, an ARISS contact
is planned for Norwich Schools, Norwich/East Anglia, United Kingdom,
UK. The direct contact will be operated by GB2CNS.

Signals from space will be audible over Europe on 145.800MHz narrowband FM.

This contact will be webcast on the ARISS Principia website
principia.ariss.org/live/

School presentation:

This contact is a collaborative project between three schools in
Norfolk and their local university, UEA. Norwich School employ an
Ogden Trust Teaching Fellow whose job is 50% dedicated to Physics
outreach and she has led the project.

City of Norwich School (CNS) are hosting the link up. Reepham High
School have an observatory on site and are hosting a ‘spot the
station’ event.

36 schools have signed up to be a part of all we have planned and have
each received an age-appropriate radio kit for use in lessons and
clubs funded by RCUK through the UEA.

Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows.

1. Maddy (Aged 13): What do you do if you cut yourself really badly in space?
2. Austin (Aged 16): Are there any protocols or guidance in place if
George Clooney comes knocking on the front door as he did in the film
Gravity?
3. Sophie (Aged 13): What experiment would you like to add to the
program based on the experiences you have had?
4. Max (Aged 11): Do you notice that you are missing natural sunlight
and fresh air and in what ways is this affecting you?
5. TBD (Aged 11): How do you get changed in space, won’t your clothes
go everywhere?
6. Eden (Aged 12): One of the experiments you are conducting in space
is to measure fluid shifts in the body, how does this help us back on
Earth?
7. Thomas (Aged 14): Do you think there will be a jump in the design
of spacecraft as many are now old?
8. Emily (Aged 13): How different was the training compared to
actually going into space?
9. Millie (Aged 15): Do you think the experiments carried out in
space will increase in number as the technology improves or will there
be technology to recreate this environment on Earth?
10. Erin (Aged 16): Which materials being developed with the
electromagnetic levitator will have the largest impact on the
development of greener living?
11. Lola (Aged 11): Since being in space have your dreams been
different to those on earth?
12. TBD (Aged 11): If everyone in Britain turned their lights on and
off at the same time, would you see it?
13. Ella (Aged 17): Which part of the Earth do you like orbiting over
the most and why?
14. Amy (Aged 16): I understand that you experience sunrise and
sunset sixteen times a day on board the ISS, are you aware of it and
does it affect your body clock?
15. Mimi (Aged 11): Do you feel insignificant up in space because
perhaps there may be life beyond our planet?
16. Bruno (Aged 15): Is there a song or a piece of art that you think
reproduces the feeling of being in a non-gravity zone, if so which
one?
17. Aruneesh (Aged 14): Do you play any anti-gravity sport up in space?
18. TBD (Aged 12): If you could live on or explore any planet, which
would it be and why?
19. James (Aged 10): If you were allowed to change one feature of a
planet, which one would it be and why?
20. Tom (Aged 14): As a plane ascends in the atmosphere, we are told
to blow our noses or swallow to minimise pain. How do you deal with
this with the g-force you experience in the rocket?

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement
of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crew members onboard the
International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see,
first hand, how Amateur Radio and crew members on ISS can energize
youngsters' interest in science, technology and learning.