March 24, 2009

ARISS CONTACT WITH ITALIAN SCHOOL WILL BE WEBCAST

The ARISS school contact planned with participants at Istituto Comprensivo Statale "Alessandro Volta", Mandello Del Lario, Lecco, Italy on Friday 27 March at 14.03 UTC (15.03 CEWT), will be performed by two different groundstations.

Part of the radio contact will be done by Gianpietro Ferrario IZ2GOJ at Alessandro Volta school. Another part will be done by Antonio Esposito IW2OAZ at ISIS Andrea Ponti school in Gallarate. Both schools will be linked.

Video from the two sites involved will be broadcast on the Internet.

Alessandro Volta School will use the link:
http://www.arierba.it/testo2.php

Andrea Ponti School will use the link:
http://www.mogulus.com/iq2gm

Audio of contact will be broadcast on:

- D-Star Conference via reflector REF007 channel B (Gallarate)

- UHF trasponder / 431.600 MHz (local)

- WiFi IQ2GM_5 / 5765MHz (local).

Downlink audio will be audible on 145.800 MHz FM all over Europe.

73

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF

ARISS Chairman