{"id":238900,"date":"2016-01-05T04:27:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T08:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=27676"},"modified":"2016-01-05T04:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T08:27:24","slug":"iss-school-contact-how-to-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238900","title":{"rendered":"ISS School contact \u2013 how to get involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_27619\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27619\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/tim_peake_kg5bvi_gb1ss_thumbs_up.jpg?w=300&#038;h=200\" alt=\"Tim_Peake_KG5BVI_GB1SS_Thumbs_Up\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI \/ GB1SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The first Amateur Radio school contact by UK astronaut <strong>Tim Peake GB1SS<\/strong> from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans. The contact will be <a href=\"https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/live\/\" >web streamed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You will be able to listen to Tim by tuning to <strong>145.800 MHz<\/strong> FM on your handheld. mobile or scanner (select wide deviation FM filter). Alternatively you can <a href=\"http:\/\/websdr.suws.org.uk\/\" >Listen Online<\/a> by using the SUWS WebSDR radio at <a href=\"http:\/\/websdr.suws.org.uk\/\" >http:\/\/websdr.suws.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audio will also be available via amateur radio Echolink and IRLP nodes<br \/>\n\u2022 EchoLink *AMSAT* Server Node 101377<br \/>\n\u2022 IRLP Discovery Reflector Node 9010<\/p>\n<p>Most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariss.org\/contact-the-iss.html\" >Amateur Radio on the International Space Station<\/a> (ARISS) operations are <strong>split-frequency<\/strong> (each station uses separate receive and transmit frequencies). The downlink is the earth station&#8217;s receiving frequency. The uplink is the earth station&#8217;s transmitting frequency.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru.org\/regions.html\" >ITU Region 1<\/a> should you be fortunate enough to hear an astronaut calling CQ on the <strong>145.800 MHz<\/strong> downlink you should switch in your -600 kHz repeater shift so your reply is on the <strong>145.200 MHz<\/strong> uplink.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the path of the space station on the ISS Dashboard <a href=\"https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/dashboard\/\" >https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/dashboard\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contact will be web streamed from the school, watch live at <a href=\"https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/live\/\" >https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/live\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information on ARISS frequencies is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariss.org\/contact-the-iss.html\" >http:\/\/www.ariss.org\/contact-the-iss.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=27676&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Amateur Radio school contact by UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans. The contact will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/01\/05\/iss-school-contact-how-to-get-involved\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=27676&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238982,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238900\/revisions\/238982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}