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An ISS Crew Contact with the students at Hudson Memorial School will take place tomorrow (Friday). We built two complete space ground stations for the contact - a Primary and a Backup and we have been preparing and testing for about a year now.

We have been testing our equipment on-site at Hudson Memorial School all week. Our Primary and Backup stations are ready to go!



Both the primary and backup antenna towers have been installed and tested.



You can watch Live Video of our final preparations and our contact tomorrow via the following link -

https://www.facebook.com/pg/NashuaAreaRadioSociety/videos/

We will be Livestreaming Video throughout the day.

Here’s our planned timeline for the event. All times EST. UTC is +5 hours from the times below.

  • 8:30 am
    – Final Station Checkout Begins
    12:30 pm – Students, Parents, and Visitors can ask questions about our contact and enjoy a tour of our stations and antennas.
    1:15 pm – Dan, AC1EN with help from Fred, AB1OC will provide an introduction to our contact and will explain what will happen.
    1:45 pm – The ISS will come over the horizon and our contact will begin.
    2:00 pm – Students, Parents, and Visitors will have a final chance to look at our the stations and ask questions after our ISS Contact ends.

We will be using the N1FD call sign for our contact with the ISS. We will be speaking with astronaut Serena Aunon Chancellor, KG5TMT on the ISS and she will be operating as NA1SS.

You can read more about our contact at these links -

https://www.n1fd.org/2018/12/06/iss-contact-is-here/
https://www.n1fd.org/2018/11/27/iss-crew-contact-date-time/
https://www.n1fd.org/2018/11/27/iss-crew-contact-preparations/
https://stationproject.blog/2018/11/13/iss-crew-contact-part-1-ground-station-design-and-construction/

We hope you'll join us for our contact via our Live Video feeds!

Fred, AB1OC
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