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ARISS PAGE

Link for the ARRIS page is correct as of 25 November 2008 : ARISS

Amateurs from the ISS partner countries,  the USA, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada,  created ARISS in 1996 to meet certain objectives including the development of the on-board amateur radio station. 

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Frequencies in use

The two-handed knob twist sync helpful while communicating with the International Space Station (ISS)

01 Sep 2004: New Frequency in use for the International Space Station.  Also amateurs reminded of doppler effect on frequencies as The ISS passes from acquisition of view to the loss of view of the ISS for that pass.

ARISS has announced that the UpLink frequency has been changed to  437.800 MHz.

The VHF DownLink frequency remains the same 145.800 MHz.

Doppler frequency shift for the DownLink is summarized by saying that the total shift in frequency is on the order of  6 MHz

When the ISS first comes into view its transmitting frequency is 145.803.

At the center point of view the frequency will be 145.800 MHz

As the ISS starts going in a direction a way from the amateur, and is lost from view the frequency drops to 145.797 MHz

The UpLink frequency shift is in the opposite direction from the downlink doppler shift. The frequency shift is on the order of 20 MHz from the time that the ISS first comes into view until the time the ISS passes from view.

Acquisition of satellite (AOS) 437.790 MHz     Center of View  437.800 MHz      Loss of Sight  437.810 MHz

Note: We expect that you will preset the memories on your radio equipment to compensate for the doppler shift - not twist knobs.

Voice and Packet Downlink: 145.80 (Worldwide)
Voice Uplink: 144.49 for Regions 2 and 3 (The Americas, and the Pacific) 
Voice Uplink: 145.20 for Region 1 (Europe, Central Asia and Africa) 
Packet Uplink: 145.99 (Worldwide)
Crossband FM repeater downlink: 145.80 MHz (Worldwide)
Crossband FM repeater uplink: 437.80 MHz (Worldwide)

See above section for explanation of doppler frequency shift

01 Sep 2004

QSL's

For the USA :

ARRL Headquarters
ARISS QSL 
225 Main Street
Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA
 

For Canada :

Radio Amateurs of Canada
ARISS QSL 
720 Belfast Road, Suite 217
Ottawa Ontario
K1G 0Z5

For Europe: (Manager Christophe Candebat, F1MOJ)

ARISS QSL Manager
14bis Rue des Gourlis
92500 Rueil Malmaison
FRANCE

For both ARISS  contacts of Frank De Winne with ON4BAF and ON4ESC please send QSL's  via 

Petre Tania ON7AQ,
Kerkom Dorp 100, 
B- 3800 Sint Truiden, 
Belgium.

For Japan:

Mitsu Sugawara, JN1LQH
JARL International Section
Tokyo 170-8073
JAPAN

For other countries, please use the US or Canadian address above until such time as an address for your country is available.

Call Signs for the International Space Station (ISS) and her crew
International Space Station
The call sign of the PMS mailbox RS0ISS-1

PacComm packet station BBS/PMS callsign - RS0ISS-1

PacComm packet keyboard callsign - RS0ISS

Kenwood packet keyboard callsign - RS0ISS-3

Kenwood packet station BBS/PMS - RSOISS-11

Kenwood packet / APRS unpro alias - ARISS

(NOTE: Packet Stations are out of operation until after the 03 Sep 2004, space walk)

U.S.A. callsign for voice transmissions - NA1SS

Russian callsigns for vice transmissions - RSO1SS and RZ3DZR

Callsigns of the ISS current crew (Expedition #9)

Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT
Flight Engineer Mike Fincke, KE5AIT

 

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