ARISS-I Meeting Agenda December 16, 2025

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Ana Guzman,  Dave Taylor,  Tanya Anderson, Ciaran Morgan, Deb Lebair, Graham Shirville, Maria Pogodina (interpreter), Jan  Poppeliers, Kenneth Ransom, Lou McFadin, Oliver Amend, Rosalie White, Ryan Krenzischek, Shizuo Endo, Sergey Samburov, Will Marchant, Keigo Komuro, David Jordon, Micol Ivancic, Bertus Husken, Stefan Dombrowski, Glenn MacDonell
 
 
November meeting minutes motion to accept by Dave Taylor and seconded by Cirian Morgan.

• Welcome— Oliver Amend
  • Hope everyone is having a great day. Thank you for joining.
  • 2025 achievements. Thanks for all your help for 25 years of continuous operation on ISS. One additional note to the list is the SSTV on RS=38.

 

• Face to face 2026 status — Oliver Amend
  • Targeting April to Mid-September 2026
  • Location – TBD (focusing on European region. Preference should be accessible for Sergey, like UK.) Calendar shown with public holidays and major conferences or exhibitions.

Request to participants to identify other “NO GO” events to be respected in the detailed meeting week scheduling.

• Ciaran – F2F - we have ruled out the option of SSTL in Guildford due to the limited size.
• Ciaran – Other options are still being looked at including :-
  •  - University of Surrey at Guildford
  •  - Hotel in Guildford
  •  - British Interplanetary Society in central London.
  •  - Plus a new option that is being investigated which is Airbus in Stevenage.
• We need to select a week to progress further since the sites want to know when to host, We also need an approximate number of attendees.
• Following discussions, preferred option 1 is week June 2-4 2026, alternative is option 2 for week June 9-11 2026
• Inquiry to team about availability for first or second week in June to be sent.
• Visa requirements for various countries will need to be verified. https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration
• Oliver – Topics to cover include education, operations and some technical (see presentation slide 9)

 

• SSTV status—Will Marchant, Sergey Samburov
  • Sergey – We had an issue with our ISS SM station so we accepted a proposal to send them via RS-38S. That worked well. Plan for end of the year is to recover the ISS SM radio.
  • Will – Event on RS-38S was from Dec 5-13 using 70 cm. Thanks to Sergey for the satellite use and Slavik & team for the awards.

 

• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • 25th anniversary status – Regional achievement list was due Nov 28. Webinar planned for Dec 21 to commemorative 25th anniversary of first school contact.
  • Ciaran - HDMI converter to be installed on Ham TV unit next week.
  • Graham – question if anyone has experience using an IC-905 for school contacts. Looking at possible remote use of display.
  • Russia – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Europe – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Japan – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Canada – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • USA - NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Next meeting January 20 2026 at 1200 UTC