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ARISS-Europe Board Elections

Information från ARISS Europa (observera att AMSAT-SM står med som medlem):
According the ARISS-Europe Terms of Reference, Board elections took
place in 2015:

– A call for candidatures was circulated to the Member Societies March
2015.
– Candidatures were accepted till the end of May 2015.
– June 4, 2015 four candidates were presented to the Member Societies.
– Till September 1st, 2015, the votes of the Member Societies were
collected.
– All four candidates are elected unopposed for a two years term.

Elected Board:

– Emanuele D’Andria, I0ELE, chairman
– Oliver Amend, DG6BCE, technical director
– Bertus Hüsken, PE1KEH, counsellor
– Jean Pierre Courjaud, F6DZP, counsellor.

According the Terms of Reference, the Board elected takes office October
1st, 2015.

Member Societies:

•    AMSAT-Belgium     (Belgium)
•    AMSAT-Francophone (France)
•    AMSAT-Italy (Italy)
•    AMSAT-SM (Sweden)
•    AMSAT-UK     (UK)
•    ARI  (Italy)
•    DARC (Germany)
•    MARL (Malta) (associate member)
•    PZK (Poland)
•    RAL (Lebanon) (associate member)
•    REF (France)
•    REP (Portugal)
•    RSGB (UK)
•    UBA (Belgium)
•    USKA (Switzerland)
•    VERON (The Netherlands)

Congratulations to the elected Board and best wishes for a very successful
term of office.

http://www.arrl.org/news/ariss-europe-chairman-retires-successor-elected

(Editors note: Emanuele D’Andria, I0ELE, will assume the duties as
ARISS-Europe chairman. Gaston Bertels, ON4WF is retiring. ANS would like to thank Gaston
for his dedicated and enthusiastic support of ARISS and amateur radio.)

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Hamradio from ISS

Recording of ARISS contact Tue 2015-09-01

This is a recordning of ARISS contact with students at Ulvila Upper Secondary School, Finland.
Tue 2015-09-01 11:44:03 UTC. Astronaut is Kjell Lindgren, KO5MOS.
QTH for recordning: Sollentuna, Sweden by Lars Thunberg SM0TGU for AMSAT-SM.

Used equipment: FCD Pro+, 4 el hor VHF yagi, N9TAX Slim-Jim vertikal, SDR Console.

Note: when sound / RX drops in the audio I switch antennas from Yagi (hor) to Slim-Jim (vert).  You can only hear ISS downlink, not the school uplink.

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ARISS-kontakt från Finland hörbar i Sverige

På tisdag 1/9 (2015) är en ARISS-kontakt (skolkontakt via amatörradio med ISS) från FInland planerad. Den är hörbar från delar av Sverige.

Upcoming ARISS Contacts

Ulvila  Upper Secondary School, Finland, direct via OH1F
The ISS callsign is  presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren  KO5MOS
Contact is a go for: Tue 2015-09-01 11:44:03 UTC

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Chans att höra ISS 14/8 2015

Nu finns en chans att höra en ARISS-kontakt från ISS under fredag kväll 14/8 2015. Se nedan:

ARISS contact for Astronomy Festival in France audible in Europe
An International Space Station contact is planned for Fleurance Astronomy Festival, College H. Reeves, Fleurance, France. The event is scheduled for Friday August 14 at 19:42 UTC, which is 21:42 CEST.  This will be a telebridge radio contact between RS0ISS and IK1SLD.

The signals from space will be audible in Europe on 145.800MHz FM.

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ISS SSTV den 18-19 juli

RX by Kurt Winebäck
RX by Kurt Winebäck vid förra SSTV-tillfället från ISS.

Nu är det dags igen för SSTV från ISS!  18 till 19 juli sänds det på 145.800 MHz FM.

Mera info:
http://amsat-uk.org/2015/07/14/iss-sstv-july-18-19/

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ISS SSTV april 2015 RX from Sweden

Some ISS SSTV-pictures received in Sweden april 11-12 2015.

RX by Kurt Winebäck
RX by Kurt Winebäck