Updated: April 28, 2007
Deep Creek Elementary School Students
Talk to the International Space Station
The International Space Station
Deep Creek Elementary School
NASA Mission 4 Uniform Patch
Astronaut - Flight Engineer Carl Walz
Elementary School Students talk to Astronaut Onboard ISS
International Space Station (ISS) Flight Engineer Carl Walz, KC5TIE, spoke with the students of Deep Creek Elementary School near Portland Oregon on
March 6, 2002 at 11AM PST via Ham Radio. This amazing educational event was coordinated by Larry Tyree, N6TR and other local Amateur Radio Operators at the School. The Amateur Radio International Space Station school program is world-wide (ARISS). Mentoring assistance to for this event was provided by Kerry Banke, N6IZW.
The down-link radio frequency was 145.8 mhz in the 2 meter Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) band. The Space Station was 250 miles above moving at 17,000 MPH from West to East as it passed above the school in Gresham, Oregon. The window of reception was about 8 minutes.
At the same time, several hundred miles South in California, Greg Greenwood, WB6FZH, located in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, in Weaverville, was listening and recording the radio signals from the Space Station for you to hear.
CLICK HERE to hear a "Real Audio/Video File" recorded in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
NOTE- This Northern California Recording from the WB6FZH ham radio station is very noisy during the first few seconds as the Space Station comes into range of Weaverville, CA (Located between Eureka and Redding, CA), but improves immediately. This "Real Media" file takes about 3 minutes to load at 33K Modem Speed. You will hear only the downlink signal from the Astronaut, with silence during Student uplink questions.- PLAY TIME- 5 minutes-
Space Station Tracking Program Screen
WB6FZH used a Satellite Tracking Program to locate the ISS
CONGRATULATIONS!
To all the Students, Teachers, Amateur
Radio Operators and Others that made this special event possible! Your hard
work will inspire others to try and have their own Space Station contact.
CLICK HERE or ON ARISS LOGO FOR INFO About HAM RADIO on The International Space Station
The Amateur Radio Operators, School Staff and Volunteers
These Amateur Radio Operators, Staff & Volunteers made the communications between the Space Station Alpha and the Deep Creek Elementary School possible. Their technical abilitites
and sincere interest in wanting the students to experience this very special event possible made it come true- - Webmaster
Uplink/Downlink Site- Deep Creek Elementary School, Boring, Oregon (Near Portland)
- Tree, N6TR
- Mark, W7ZB
- Paul, K7PN
- Jim, KI7Y
- Sandy, W7BX
- Lew, W7EW
- Rob, W7NX
- Kerry, N6IZW
- Nancy Culolias (N6TR XYL)
- Connie Rice, Principal Deep Creek Elementary School
Ham Radio Space Communications Station: Weaverville, California (300 miles North of San Francisco)
- Greg Greenwood, WB6FZH (Amateur Radio Operator and Webmaster for this page)
- Station Equipment: on 145.8 mhz: "Eggbeater" type antenna at 25', Kenwood TM-251 VHF FM Radio Transciever.
LINKS- Related Amateur Radio, NASA, Media and Other Websites
Space Station & Satellite Tracking Programs
Note: WB6FZH has used STS ORBITS Plus DOS program for satellite tracking and astronmy for years. It was developed by the late Dave Ransom of AZ, for use by governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Dave kept it available at low cost to cover expenses for years, Greg-WB6FZH, paid $10 for a disk in 1989. It appears that the program is nolonger available with Ransom's death, making way for newer windows platform programs.
Your additional LINK Suggestions are always welcome!
APRS VHF Packet Digipeater on Space Station
CAN YOU FIND WB6FZH LOCATION?
More Ham Radio and Space Applications
These station locations displayed on this map came from digital data "digipeated" via Ham Radio from ground stations to the Space Station and relayed to Earth. The signals were decoded and sent via the internet from special "gateway" stations to a central computer and displayed as you see them to show the locations of stations. The APRS technology used has many applications including locating stations during Search & Rescue.
CLICK HERE- to SEE FURTHER MAP INFORMATION for WB6FZH- His station is NOT always on the air!
SEE LINKS SECTION for MORE INFORMATION
The ISS CREW(#4) in March 2002
- Commander Yury Onufrienko (RUSSIA) - RK3KUO
- Flight Eng. Carl Waltz (USA)- KC5TIE
- Flight Eng. Dan Bursh (USA)- K0PNU
ISS CREW WORK SCHEDULE
- The general schedule is around the UTC time zone.(Pacific Time Zone is -8 UTC, Eight Hours behind GMT.
The wake-up call is around 0800UTC and quitting time is around 1900UTC. There is a "lunch break" around 1200 UTC.
- There is a "Weekend" period from 1200UTC on Saturday until about 1900 Sunday.
- NOTE: The ISS crews have been working "overtime" to try to keep up with the schedule of delivery and assembly of the new station, and have had little or no "free" time.
- Possible "good times" for Ham Radio contacts...0800 UTC, 1200 UTC, 1900UTC and
"weekend" periods- Saturday 1200 to Sunday to 1900.
PURPOSE OF THIS PAGE It was Created as a resource to inspire Students, Teachers and Ham Radio Operators to learn about the Amateur Radio International Space Station (ARISS) Program. Hopefully, people will be inspired to bring similar space science activites into the classroom to inspire children of all ages to follow their dreams through education.
PHOTO, AUDIO & THIS WEBSITE CREDITS
- School Photos- Deep Creek Elementary School & Larry Tyree, N6TR- "Tree"
- Real Media audio file- Greg Greenwood, WB6FZH (FILE USE OK NON-PROFIT)
- ISS, Patch & Carl Walz picture files- NASA
- ARISS MAPS- Vicinity Corporation
- THIS WEBSITE- The TrinityCam INFOproject
- Thanks to anyone who was not listed or credited.. sorry for the oversights, please e-mail corrections- Webmaster
Greg Greenwood, WB6FZH
Last Updated: April 28, 2007
EMAIL the Webmaster- WB6FZH
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