*** A local youth will contact an astronaut by ham radio as the International Space Station flies overhead. ***
Amateur Radio International Space Station
>> McMinnville Friday 1128 am Free in-person to public OR on Youtube. Listen on 145.80 Mhz
This is a reminder for the ARISS Contact on October 18th. If you can’t be there physically, it will also be broadcast on YouTube. This is open to the public.
Celebrate the end of Zeke KJ7NLL’s 5-year quest to communicate with an astronaut on the ISS over ham radio! Thanks to the ARISS program, on Friday, October 18, Zeke will facilitate the 11-minute ham radio call between Astronaut Sunita Williams and students from TEACH-NW charter school. We will be using our student-made antennas and rotor system to contact the ISS, and over the past several weeks we have spent many, many hours modifying and fine-tuning the equipment.
Weather: high 57F, slight chance rain, if you visit the field WEAR something for mud.
The ISS crewmember will be Sunita Williams KD5PLB, KD5MDT.
The event will take place on Friday, October 18, 2024, at 11:00 AM PDT in McMinnville, OR, at the Carlton Observatory, part of the Evergreen Air and Space Museum.
ISS AOS contact is 11:28 AM PDT. Be early!
This event is free and open to the public! Feel free to invite family and friends and post the event on social media. We will hold our conversation outdoors on the site of the future Carlton Observatory. The entire conversation will take 11 minutes, and we encourage you to arrive early.
If you cannot be there in person, please watch the Livestream on Zeke’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@KJ7NLL/streams
Location directions:
Carlton Observatory at the Evergreen Air & Space Museum
500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR 97128
Directions to ARISS site once you arrive at the museum:
Right on Cumulus Ave
Follow signs to the museum and go across speed bumps
Take a right towards the theater signs
Park in the lot
Choose indoor or outdoor:
Outdoor at the future site of the Carlton Observatory:
The hill is steep and the ground is uneven, so wear sturdy footwear and feel free to bring a camping chair.
Walk to the far west end of the campus.
There is a Gravel road in front of the museum, that road ends at the outdoor contact site.
Indoor:
The live stream will also be played indoors at the museum theatre.
Technical details from ARISS:
TEACH-NW Charter School, Springfield, OR, direct via KJ7NLL
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz Primary Frequency
The scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams KD5PLB KD5MDT
Contact is go for: Fri 2024-10-18 18:30:14 UTC 57 deg
