The Nashua Area Radio Society will be supporting an ARISS Crew Contact at Hudson Memorial School in Hudson, NH today (Friday). We will be Live streaming video from the school all day including during the contact. Here's a link to view the live video feeds - https://www.facebook.com/pg/NashuaAreaRadioSociety/videos/ We have built Primary and Backup Ground Stations at the school to support the contact and we have been testing our setup and making contacts using it during the past few days. Our stations feature two sets of computer controlled antenna systems on the sports field at the school. You can read more about our upcoming contact and the stations which support them via the following 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...art-1-ground-station-design-and-construction/ We hope that you'll join us for our contact today (Friday) via the Livestream link. Final activities will begin around 1:15 pm eastern time and our contact will start at around 1:45 pm. Fred, AB1OC
Watched the live stream, Fred, looks like you all did a great job as expected. 73 and thanks to you and the club for making this happen!
Thank you, everyone, for the kind words of encouragement. The contact was awesome and the kids really had a memorable experience doing it. Check out the video on Facebook to see how it went.
Thanks again everyone for the kind words. The contact was a once in a lifetime experience for the students and all involved. Fred, AB1OC