Please know that talking to an astronaut aboard the ISS is a very rare occurrence.
Many factors come into play ...
-For the most part, they work on GMT.
-You need to read the schedules for each involved country's space programs to see?
where the astronauts will be in the ISS at any given time.
-The astronauts have to have either free time or scheduled time to work ham radio.
It just does not occur too often. And for Scouting events when astronaut time IS?
scheduled for ham radio, if often can get chaotic ...
The events we conduct between schools and the ISS - the ARISS projects - take months?
to prepare and pull off. Mine in 2012 was described as " ... eleven months of preparation for a ten-
minute conversation ... " (grin)
BUT - When there is not a mission approaching nor leaving the ISS, its APRS digipeater system?
is up and bursting! And even if you are not set up to use APRS, it IS exciting to track the ISS and?
hear that signal!
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