<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Fwd: SPECIAL BULLETIN - ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students in Mill City, Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Max,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>This might be interesting to some of us...I think we can monitor them as they fly by. A HT should work. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can you post this? Tnx de Mike KB7KLT<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong>ARRL Members Only Web site</strong> <<a href="mailto:memberlist@www.arrl.org" target="_blank">memberlist@www.arrl.org</a>><br>Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:24 PM<br>Subject: SPECIAL BULLETIN - ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students in Mill City, Oregon<br>To: <<a href="mailto:kb7klt@gmail.com" target="_blank">kb7klt@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>The following was released from ARISS this morning. Note that the Oregon<br>Charter Academy is a virtual school, and as such cannot do a "live<br>stream" of the event. It is my understanding that it will be recorded<br>and put onto the ARISS YouTube channel soon. <br><br>73;<br>Mike<br>W7VO<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>ARISS News Release <br> No. 20-26 <br><br>Dave Jordan, AA4KN<br><br>ARISS PR<br><br><a href="mailto:aa4kn@amsat.org" target="_blank">aa4kn@amsat.org</a><br><br><br>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br><br><br>ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students at Oregon Charter Academy, Mill<br>City, Oregon - USA<br><br><br><br>December 11, 2020—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station<br>(ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact<br>with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur<br>radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with<br>ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).<br><br>This will be a <b>Multipoint Telebridge Contact</b> via Amateur Radio between<br>the ISS and students from <b>Oregon Charter Academy</b> (ORCA), in <b>Mill City,<br>OR</b>. During the ARISS radio contact, students will take turns asking<br>their questions of astronaut Shannon Walker, whose amateur radio call<br>sign is KD5DXB. The downlink frequency for this contact is <b>145.800 MHz</b>. <br><br><br>ARISS team member Shane Lynd, using call sign VK4KHZ from an amateur<br>radio club station in Glenden, Queensland, Australia will serve as the<br>relay amateur radio station. Each student asking a question of Shannon<br>Walker will be teleconferenced from home or social-distanced at school.<br><br>The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for <b>December 15, 2020 at 11:00 am<br>PST</b> (Mill City), (19:00 UTC, 2:00 pm EST, 1:00 pm CST, 12:00 noon MST,<br>11:00 am PST).<br><br>A public virtual charter school, ORCA (with about 4,800 students ages 5<br>to18) provides online programs via video teleconferencing, and virtual<br>classroom courses (Zoom). ORCA opened in 2005, can reach students<br>statewide (including remote areas), and employs over 200 teachers and<br>staff.<br><br>ORCA is in the second year of a partnership with the James P. Loftus<br>Mobile Museum to provide monthly assemblies on a variety of STEM topics<br>(astronomy, space science and engineering related) via the Remote and<br>Distant Interactive Online Sessions (RADIOS) program. These RADIOS are<br>interactive assemblies that highlight educational programming provided<br>in real time by NASA and live-streamed from Space Center Houston.<br>Additionally, student activities related to this ARISS contact have been<br>used to supplement existing STEM course study materials.<br><br>The upcoming ARISS contact will provide students with a significant,<br>relevant and timely showcase event that is being utilized to increase<br>student’s awareness of and interest in STEM-related careers. ORCA<br>provides high school students with special opportunities through a<br>program all about career and technical education.<br> _______________________________<br><br> As time allows, students will ask these questions:<br><br><br>1. How do you sleep?<br><br>2. Do compasses work in space?<br><br>3. Can you listen to the radio on the spaceship that is the same on<br>earth?<br><br>4. How many satellites are in space?<br><br>5. Do you see storms in outer space and what do they look like?<br><br>6. What do you have to do for training to go on the ISS, and what is<br>your favorite activity you had to do during training?<br><br>7. Are you currently growing any plants on the ISS?<br><br>8. Does it take a while to get used to this new way of living, and is<br>adjusting to being back on earth equally hard?<br><br>9. How is your Circadian Rhythm affected while in space?<br><br>10. What is your favorite thing to research?<br><br>11. Are you allowed to have pets in space and if so what kinds?<br><br>12. Did you ever accidentally activate/deactivate something by bumping<br>into it?<br><br>13. Do you watch TV in space?<br><br>14. How do you use electronics phones, computers, and tablets, and<br>touchscreens?<br><br>15. How do you communicate with people on Earth?<br><br>16. How do satellite communications work?<br><br>17. How long does it take to get to the international space station?<br><br>18. What was the most dangerous situation you ever faced in space?<br><br>19. What happens if your technology goes out? What is the back up?<br><br>20. How long is the delay for a video call like this compared to<br>something like texting or normally calling someone on a phone?<br><br>ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur Radio Continuous Operations on<br>the ISS<br><br>About ARISS:<br><br>Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a<br>cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the<br>space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In<br>the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation<br>(AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National<br>Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space Communications and<br>Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration<br>of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics by<br>organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members<br>aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts,<br>students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space<br>technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see<br><a href="http://www.ariss.org" target="_blank">www.ariss.org</a><br><br>Media Contact:<br><br>Dave Jordan, AA4KN<br><br>ARISS PR<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------<br>ARRL Northwestern Division<br>Director: Michael T Ritz, W7VO<br><a href="mailto:w7vo@arrl.org" target="_blank">w7vo@arrl.org</a><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>To unsubscribe from messages, go to:<br><a href="http://p1k.arrl.org/oo/aa03fa11fc4387b59be88381f7d5ae4c" target="_blank">http://p1k.arrl.org/oo/aa03fa11fc4387b59be88381f7d5ae4c</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>