ARISS International Team Teleconference

Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 11:15 UTC (7:15 am ET)

Participants:

Mark Steiner

Rosalie White

Masanobu Tsuji

Keigo Komuro

Ken Nichols

Keith Pugh

Francesco De Paolis

Fabio Azzarello

Daniel Lamoureux

Kenneth Ransom

David Jordan

Gould Smith

Barry Baines

Dave Taylor

Not Present:

Gaston Bertels

Larry Agabekov

Sergey Samburov

Lou McFadin

Carlos Eavis

Graham Shirville

Maurice André Vigneault

Carlos Neta

Carol Jackson

Steve Ponder

Mark Severance

Darin Cowan

ARISS I Agenda:

Administrative Session

1. ARISS-I Face to Face Meeting, October 2011, Presenters: D.Taylor, M.Steiner, R.White

- Reports

Nick Lance has been coordinating with hams in the Houston area who volunteered to assist with transportation and other logistics for our annual meeting.

Carol will be collecting travel information from ARISS delegates and all others who plan to attend, so please send an email to her with date of arrival and departure, airline flight and time.

Mark reminded delegates that if they have agenda items for the meeting to send those items to Gaston. He, Mark, Rosalie, and Carol have drafted an agenda, and will be finalizing it before our next monthly meeting. The agenda contains many items, and it is difficult to find time for all discussions during the meeting. Please do not expect that we will have an empty time slot if you bring to Houston a totally new topic to be discussed. Give the topic to Gaston, now, so that we can ensure it will get a time slot.

Rosalie reminded committee leaders and ARISS delegates that as in past years, their committee reports and region reports are to be submitted before the meeting to Carol. The deadline to email reports to Carol is October 1. When delegates and committee members have the reports prior to the meeting, they have time to read the reports carefully, discuss things among their region’s volunteers, and ask any questions and suggest ideas during the meeting. Carol will ensure that delegates and committee leaders receive all reports prior to traveling to Houston. Delegates and committee leaders: As in past years, you will not be giving an overview of your report at the meeting; but if you have a topic for discussion, send an email to Gaston for the agenda. Surprises are not beneficial to the team. The main purpose for making the effort to travel to an international face-to-face meeting is for delegates and team members to discuss problems, listen to and determine options, and then delegates can vote on the best solutions.

2. New business (administrative only)

There is no new business at this time.

General Session

3. Columbus module status, Presenter: K. Ransom

Kenneth said the crew had set up the UHF Ericsson radio and disconnected the VHF Ericsson radio. The UHF Ericsson is set up on packet; Kenneth reported that it is functioning well.

The team hopes to have the crew do a little testing of the VHF Ericsson. Another option is to look at sending up a new VHF radio to the ISS. If the latter is required, the Project Selection and Use Committee will discuss our options and give a recommendation to the delegates.

There has been no update on the European Ham TV topic.

4. ARISSat-1 status, Presenter: L. McFadin

Gould reported that the various aspects of ARISSat are working well except the battery has a problem. Amateur Radio operators have been using ARISSat, and participants have requested 700 ARISSat certificates, thus far. The team has been working hard to understand what the battery is and is not doing. Some of the cells may have failed, but open rather than shorted out, which is the better option. The satellite may continue to work when it is in sunlight and powered by the solar panels.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 20.

5. New business

Mark gave the date for our next meeting as Tuesday, September 20, at 11:15 UTC (7:15 am ET).