A VHF contact beetwen a senegalese college and ISS in Africa.
Here you are!
This first adventure in Senegal ARISS is complete, and it was a great success. This Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:20 in College IV Mbour, we were all present, more or less concerned about the proper outcome of this great challenge. With the support of amateur radio club 6W7PCT Saly, students have made under the special call sign 6V7SPACE, a radio contact with astronaut Frank De Winne from the International Space Station: OR4ISS.
The most visible activity of ARISS is to organize in VHF radio contact between schools worldwide and the International Space Station (ISS), thus contributing to the educational program launched into space by NASA in the USA.
ARISS also provides the equipment preparation amateur board (transceivers, antennas, laptop ...) which is then installed on the ISS by astronauts themselves.
At 10 hours, the room of the Science Club college of Mbour IV was full of people. At 10:15 am Gaston Bertels telephoned us from Brussels to follow in live those few minutes of communication with the space. At 10:22, Gaston launched the starting signal: no noise in the room and nothing more was that Jan Francois 6W7RV announce into the microphone "OR4ISS, OR4ISS here is 6V7SPACE from Senegal.