ARISS-I Meeting Agenda September 16, 2025

• Roll Call— Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Frank Bauer, Kenneth Ransom, Ciaran Morgan, Graham Shirville, Rosalie White, Dave Taylor, Shizuo Endo, Ana Guzman, Tanya Anderson, Bertus Husken, Jan  Poppeliers, Will Marchant, Ryan Krenzischek, Lou McFadin, Randy Berger, Keigo Komuro, John Croft, Michel Nawrocki, Micol Ivancic,
 
 

• Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 
  • Welcome back Kenneth in his new role as Sec/Tres.
• HamVideo Operations Status — Frank Bauer, Ana Guzman, Ciaran Morgan
  • Subcommittee setup to take over for technical team. Initial meeting had 60 attendees. Several stations from Europe willing to support. A few from Australia. Big push to add stations in North America. Merger system testing in works. Several on board hardware tests needed.
• SSTV: Upcoming events—Will Marchant
  • Several short SSTV events coming up. The short downlink opportunities (1-3 days) makes it hard to get all 12 images. Proposing to duplicate slides in the 12 image (required) set, which should increase the chances of getting a full set of 6. An alternate option is to have 4 images repeated 3 times.
  • Sessions Oct 3-6 for Sputnik-1, World Space Week, (6  distinct slides), Oct 17-20 for JOTA (4 distinct slides,  Potentially Nov 13 and Dec 21 for ARISS 25th Anniversary, Holiday greetings and 40th Anniversary of MIR launch.
• ARISS APRS Reporting—Will Marchant
  • ARISS.net has been a source of ISS packet info since early 2000’s. It is not part of ARISS and has advertising to support the funding. Will has been testing a version that would run on the ARISS.org site. Please let Will know if you are interested in serving on the APRS server committee
• 25th Anniversary Planning—Frank Bauer
  • November 2000 began ARISS testing and events. The first school contact was held on Dec 21, 2000. We are looking for ideas on how to celebrate.
• NASA SCaN Request for Information (RFI): Lunar Opportunity to receive one-way doppler signals on Artemis-II—Frank Bauer
  • NASA SCaN is one of our sponsors. Support from ARISS on this project would be beneficial. Ciaran and Rosalie are supportive of having AREx being restarted to support.
• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • Next meeting Oct 21.
  • Will was our ops lead but stepped down to support other areas. Frank has been filling in for the interim but Ciaran Morgan will be stepping up as the ops  lead for ARISS International.