Na FM fonické QSO with ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) you also need to be a little lucky. Although there are currently five radio operators aboard the International Space Station, they have other responsibilities and little time left for broadcasting. According to AMSAT Weekly Bulletin No. 313, Howard Long G6LVB received confirmation that Commander Mike Foale KB5UAC potvrdil skedy s mobilným predvádzacím rádiovozom GB4FUN, ktorý bude v Kings School v Cantenbury. A koncom novembra je v pláne ešte ďalšia akcia, pri ktorej si rádioamatérska verejnosť príde asi viac na svoje.
Schedules with GB4FUN are arranged for these flybys (applies to Britain, at our locations the ISS will rise above the horizon in all cases about 3 minutes later, west to east flyby):
| The date | UTC |
| November 25, 2003 | 18:50 |
| November 26, 2003 | 17:48 |
| November 27, 2003 | 16:46 |
| November 28, 2003 | 17:19 |
The second event is held in honor of Roy Neal K6DUE, who died on August 15. Roy's long-term vision was the presence of an amateur operation in space missions. This dream began to come true on November 28, 1983, when the space shuttle Columbia took off with astronaut and radio amateur Owen Garriot W5LFL, who heard from space after a few days.
In October 1988, a Russian amateur radio team led by Sergey Samburov RV3DR and Larry Agabekov UA6HZ/N2WW exported amateur radio equipment to the Mir space station. During the next AMSAT-NA symposium LEO Labutin UA3CR (SK) komunikoval s kozmonautom Musom Manorovm U2MIR.
The history of radio amateur operation from the ISS began to be written just three years ago. On the thirteenth of November 2000, the then first crew consisting of Sergej Krikalev U5MIR and Bill Shepherd KD5GSL established contact with R3K and NN1SS.
Mike Foale KB5UAC and Alex "Sasha" Kaleri, U8MIR will be QRVs for ham radio stations during 29. a 30.novembra 2003. Tým, ktorí s nimi nadviažu spojenie alebo nadviažu spojenie packetom s RS0ISS do konca decembra bude vydaný výročný certifikát.
| The date | UTC |
| November 29, 2003 | 14:49 |
| November 29, 2003 | 16:24 |
| November 29, 2003 | 18:00 |
| November 29, 2003 | 19:36 |
| November 29, 2003 | 21:12 |
| November 30, 2003 | 13:47 |
| November 30, 2003 | 15:22 |
| November 30, 2003 | 16:58 |
| November 30, 2003 | 18:34 |
| November 30, 2003 | 20:10 |
The uplink is at the frequency of 145.200 MHz and the downlink at the frequency of 145.800 MHz +/- doppler frequency shift, which is usually a few kHz. There is a service channel on the frequency 143.625 MHz, na ktorom prebieha komunikácia ISS s riadiacimi centrami. Na tejto frekvencii počuť ISS veľmi často s výborným signálom (S9+).
Americký rádioamatéri na palube používajú značku NA1SS, ruskí RS0ISS alebo RZ3DZR. Európske stanice môžu o QSL for the connection, ask at the address AMSAT-France, 14 bis, rue des Gourlis, Rueil Malmaison, 92500, FRANCE, if they send a QSL, SASE a 2IRC.