HAM TV is a project that allows in the international program ARISS of make broadcasts audio / video from the International Space Station (ISS) on amateur radio bands for contacts with schools, with the aim of sharing the experiences of the astronauts during their stay in Space. An ambitious project started in 2009 and developed over the years to follow up the implementation of a group of volunteer amateur radio operators of AMSAT Italia in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), which it approved, supported and financed the experiment entrusted to the company Kayser Italy in Livorno the realization of the transmitting station of the Columbus module aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and with the participation of a group of companies, including the ARCol WG (Amateur Radio on Columbus Working Group). Precious collaboration of Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, IZ0PA, who heard of the project HAM TV, we has enthusiastically supported AMSAT Italia in ESA, as we have seen engaged in educational activities of “contact school “when he was on the ISS in 2010 and 2011. In the pre-launch phase, the transmitter “payload”, after being subjected to rigorous ESA test applied to take a trip to the space with a carrier-cargo and for commissioning in service onboard of the ISS, it was launched 3 August 2013 with the Japanese HTV-4 cargo vessel, successfully reaching the International Space Station (ISS)……
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