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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-263.03
1. Kingston School Contact Successful
On Friday, September 10, at 0752 UTC, Kingston Community School in
Kingston SE, South Australia experienced a successful contact with
Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, via the telebridge station, NN1SS in Greenbelt,
Maryland, with Dave Taylor, W8AAS, at the controls. Students were
able to ask and have answered fifteen questions while an audience of
150 parents and other guests as well as many students looked on. The
event was covered by WIN TV and 5TCB Community Radio as well as the
local press. ABC radio spoke with ARISS Australia team member, Tony
Hutchison, VK5ZAI, on Thursday, ran his interview the evening before
the contact, and followed up by carrying the contact live, state wide
on Friday.
2. Upcoming School Contacts
Aoyama Gakuin Elementary School in Tokyo, Japan has been scheduled
for a contact with the ISS. It will take place on Friday, September
17, at 07:38 UTC.
The Investigator Science and Technology Centre in Adelaide,
Australia has also been scheduled for an ARISS contact. It will take
place via the telebridge station, WH6PN, in Hawaii on Thursday,
September 23, at 0913 UTC.
3. Astronaut Speaks to all 7 Continents
On Saturday, September 11, at 1504 UTC, Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, made
contact with Chuck Kimball, N0NHJ, at the Palmer Research Station in
Antarctica, KC4AAC, making Fincke the first crewmember on the ISS to
work all 7 continents. He joins astronauts Dave Leestma and Kathy
Sullivan, who also worked the 7 continents from space on STS-45.
4. Fincke Makes Request for Repeater Mode
Astronaut Mike Fincke asked for and received permission to return
the Kenwood to repeater mode on Saturday, September 11. Fincke had
been heard on the radio last weekend (September 5) over North
America, and after switching modes, he had hams buzzing again as he
was heard over Europe. The radio will remain in crossband repeater
mode (437.80 up, 145.80 down with no tone) until the next school
contact, scheduled for Japan on Friday, September 17 at 0738 UTC.
The radio will return to packet mode after the contact.
5. Mike Fincke to Participate in Upcoming Event
"The Long Night of the Stars," is an open house at the control
center of ESA ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, which will be held on
Saturday, September 18. Fincke has been scheduled for a contact with
the control center during the event at 1854 UTC. Mike has also
expressed interest in participating in a contact during the Marina
Air Fair, which will be held in Marina, California on Saturday,
October 16. His participation in these events will be handled as
informal dialog, similar to that of Field Day.
6. Expedition 10 Training at Energia
On September 6 -8, RSC Energia held training sessions for Expedition
10 crew members Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov and the backup
crew, Valery Takarev and Willliam McArthur. Cosmonaut Yury Shargin,
who will be the visiting crew member on the next Soyuz flight, also
attended the sessions. Shargin will be involved in photography and
videography, and plans to make a few ARISS contacts while on board
the ISS. For more information and photos of the sessions, see:
http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/iss10/photo_09-09.html
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