HIGH SCHOOL IN
An ARISS School Contact has been planned
with students at Samuel-von-Pufendorf Gymnasium,
The contact will be a direct between
stations NA1SS and DL0GYM. The contact should be audible in most of
Samuel-von-Pufendorf
Gymnasium leads the pupils to the Abitur in a 8 year course beginning with grade 5. More than 600 young
people in all grades are taught by 65 teachers. The school amateur radio club
DL0GYM was founded in 2003. The main purpose is to prepare pupils to pass the amateur
radio examination and become licensees. The club station supports education by
demonstrating the possibilities of modern amateur radio technologies like
packet radio, satellite communication via the "OSCARs",
ATV, SSTV and so on. The club cooperates with the
German Amateur Radio Club "DARC e.V." and
the "Arbeitskreis Amateurfunk
in der Schule - AATiS e.V."
Students will ask as many of the
following questions as time allows:
1. Can you watch an eruption of a volcano
from your station?
2. Is it possible to you to watch TV
programmes by using satellites?
3. Can you receive terrestrial radio
programmes in the orbit?
4. Could you watch sport events by
television?
5. How does a higher sun activity
influence your space station?
6. Can you see Northern Lights from the
orbit?
7. Can you see the lightning of a
thunderstorm?
8. Can you notice any influences of the
atmosphere on the ISS?
9. Does the weather on earth influence
your work on the station?
10. Can you notice the melting of our
poles?
11. Do you see the ozone layer?
12. Can you surf in the Internet or send
E-mails?
13. How can you avoid damages by space
debris?
14. Is the ISS hit by cosmic particles?
15. Can you see other satellites?
16. Can you work on the space station
with soldering irons?
17. Do you need to clean the windows of
the ISS?
18. How can you communicate with your
family members?
19. In which language do you talk
together?
20. Do you have your personal free time
maybe to read a book?
Good luck!
73
Gaston Bertels
– ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman