[ILHam] ARISS Contact at Bradley - Bourbonnais High School Today

[Clay Melhorn]

BBCHS  Bradley - Bourbonnais High School in Illinois
ARISS Contact Today
The ARISS contact date has approved by NASA for
Tuesday March 28
(12:01 Local time) - 18:01 UTC
Contact with the International Space Station from Bradley-Bourbonnais 
High School

ARISS mentor Charlie Sufana AJ9N and KARS Director (Kankakee Area Radio 
Society)
Jim Schreiner K9BIG have teamed together to make this become reality.

Jim Schreiner a science teacher at BBCHS and SMC
has been working on this project for a few years now.
Jim has invited Maury Shumaker W4HYB of Manassas,
Virginia as guest speaker at the event.
Maury, a past president of the Kankakee Area Radio
Society and 1953 graduate of BBCHS has driven in
from his home in Virginia to speak to the school.
Maury was the Vice-Director of the Space Shuttle
Challanger accident investigation committee.

The ARISS contact will be covered with our thanks by the following media:
WKAN 1320 AM
WVLI 95.1 FM
WGFA 94.1 FM
Kankakee Daily Journal Newspaper
Chicago Tribune
Comcast Cable will provide a live feed on channel 4

The membership of the Kankakee Area Radio Society
congratulates Jim on a job well done and remain committed
to help see this ARISS contact become a total success.

Note:
The ARISS contact audio will be simulcast on KARS 444.80
UHF repeater. Just tune in your scanner to 444.80 mhz.
The repeater is also streaming live audio on the world wide web.
To listen to the ARISS contact from your computer
click on the link below.
<http://w9az-repeater.daca.net:8000/listen.pls>Listen 
<http://w9az-repeater.daca.net:8000/listen.pls> to the W9AZ 444.80 
repeater in streaming audio!
http://www.w9az.com/
Follow the link
Note:
The streaming audio link will run in applications such as
Netscape's Winamp <http://www.winamp.com/> and Real Player 
<http://www.real.com/>.
Click the links to download and install a free copy now.
Please note: The link will NOT run in Windows Media Player.

Final Note:
The BBCHS Web Site has a video server in place now to air the
ARISS contact live in Streaming Video.
Click on the following link
The ISS LIVE CONTACT VIDEO WEB CAST 
<http://www.bbchs.k12.il.us/ISS/index.htm> link at
Bradley - Bourbonnais High School web site,
home of the BBCHS Boiler Makers.
This entire show is being produced and recorded by the
able students of BBCHS's Communications Class.
The show will be aired on BBCHS's closed cable TV
channel to all of the school's nearly 2000 students.
We are very impressed with the professional attitude
and skill these students displayed during set-up.

BTW: BBCHS has it's own school club radio station as it did
in the 1950's ands 60's now at the direction of Mr Schreiner.
The club callsign is K9BHS.

Click here for full info   http://www.w9az.com/