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An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at École des Charmilles, Thyez, France
on 11 Apr. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:55 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and ON4ISS. The contact should be audible over Belgium and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in French.

Story:

Thyez est une commune situee dans Sud-Est de la France dans le departement de la Haute-Savoie, au coeur de la vallee de l'Arve, entre le Mont-Blanc et le lac Leman. On appelle ses habitants les Thylons et les Thylonnes.Cette commune d'un peu plus de 6000 habitants a une activite economique forte essentiellement liee a l'industrie du decolletage qui consiste a fabriquer de petites pieces de precisions pour differents secteurs comme l'automobile, la sante mais aussi l'aviation et l'aeronautique.
Ce savoir-faire ne de l'horlogerie fait de la vallee de l'Arve la capitale mondiale du decolletage. Mais c'est aussi une region touristique ete comme hiver. Situee au coeur des Alpes, elle offre aux visiteurs de formidables panoramas. La ville de Thyez se distingue de ses voisines avec ses lacs et sa base de loisirs offrant un cadre de vie de grande qualite a ses habitants.
L'ecole des Charmilles, l'une des deux ecoles de la ville, situe sur le bas de la commune, accueille 464 eleves de 3 a 11 ans dans les 18 classes qui la composent. C'est la plus grande ecole de la commune. L'ecole de la Crete, situee sur le haut de la ville, accueille 137 enfants ages de de 6 a 11 ans, repartis en 5 classes.
Depuis le mois de septembre 2018, des eleves thylons suivent avec passion la mission de David Saint-Jacques a bord de la station spatiale. Ils developpent au travers de cette activite leur curiosite pour les sciences et pour la culture humaniste.

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Thyez is a town located in the South-East of France in the Haute-Savoie, in the heart of the Arve Valley, between Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva. Its inhabitants are called the Thylons and the Thylonnes.This town of a little over 6,000 inhabitants has a strong economic activity mainly related to the bar turning industry which consists in manufacturing small precision pieces for various sectors such as the automobile, health but also aviation and aeronautics.This expertise born of watchmaking makes the Arve Valley the world capital of machining. But it is also a tourist region summer and winter. Located in the heart of the Alps, it offers visitors great panoramas and activities. The city of Thyez is distinguished from its neighbors with its lakes and its leisure center overlooking the mountains offering a high quality of life to its inhabitants.The school of Charmilles, one of the two schools of the city, located on the bottom of the town, welcomes 464 students from 3 to 11 years in the 18 classes that compose it. It is the biggest school of the municipality. The school of Crete, located on the top of the city welcomes 137 children aged from 6 to 11 years, divided into 5 classes. Since September 2018, students have followed with passion the mission of David Saint-Jacques aboard the space station. Through this activity they develop their curiosity for science and for humanist culture.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. Est ce que tu peux toucher les etoiles?
2. La station spatiale se deplace-t-elle ou reste-t-elle immobile dans le ciel?
3. Quelle est votre mission?
4. Doit-on conduire la station internationale?
5. Comment se sent-on dans une fusee?
6. Pourquoi avez-vous voulu devenir astronaute?
7. Comment faites-vous pour boire?
8. Est ce qu'il y a des extra terrestres dans l'espace?
9. Quand vous etes dans la station, est-ce que vous volez?
10. Quel entrainement avez-vous suivi?
11. Allez-vous sortir dans l'espace?
12. Combien de temps faut-il a la fusee pour arriver a la station spatiale?
13. Etes-vous triste que votre famille ne vous ait pas accompagne dans l'espace?
14. Quelle est ta planete preferee?
15. Comment faites-vous quand vous n avez plus rien a manger?
16. Est-ce qu'il fait froid dans l'espace?
17. Comment dormez-vous a bord?
18. Est-ce que vous avez du mal a respirer dans l'espace?
19. Irez-vous un jour sur Mars?
20. Arrivez-vous a prendre des nouvelles de ce qu'il se passe sur terre?

translated:
1. Can you touch the stars?
2. Does the space station move or remain motionless in the sky?
3. What is your mission?
4. Do you have to drive the international station?
5. How do you feel in a rocket?
6. Why did you want to become an astronaut?
7. How do you drink?
8. Are there extra terrestrials in space?
9. When you are in the station, do you fly?
10. What training did you follow?
11. Will you go out into space?
12. How long does it take for the rocket to arrive at the space station?
13. Are you sad that your family did not accompany you in space?
14. What is your favorite planet?
15. How do you do when you have nothing to eat?
16. Is it cold in space?
17. How do you sleep on board?
18. Do you have trouble breathing in space?
19. Will you ever go to Mars?
20. Are you getting to know what's happening on earth?

Airspy will not work well in VMware

Power up vmware ensuring that you have shared access to airspy, e.g. VM, Removable device, Openmoko Airspy Connect (disconect from host)

Open a console window, type airspy_info and you get the error:

AIRSPY_ERROR_NOT_FOUND (-5)

To fix this you need to power down the VM guest and edit the config file

You need to edit the config file for you linux vm guest install and add this line

usb.quirks.device0 = "0x1d50:0x60a1 skip-setconfig"

I put it here:

Save the file and power up the guest
open a terminal again and type airspy_info, you should get a clean output.

I've managed to get GQRX running, but not able to see any signals, so its not technically working.

I have been advised this si not the way to go, either choose a cheap raspberry pi or a dedicated linux install.