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BID : ANS-016.03
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Subj: First WAC Certificate Awarded For ISS Op
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From: CX2SA@CX2SA.LAV.URY.SA
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 016.03
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 16, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-016.03
During his International Space Station Expedition 9 duty tour, astronaut
Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, became the first ISS crew member to contact all
seven of the world's continents via Amateur Radio. Now he has the
International Amateur Radio Union's Worked All Continents (WAC)
certificate for his wall.
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Ham Radio
Technical Coordinator Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO presented the award to
Fincke recently at Johnson Space Center. Operating NA1SS Fincke worked
KC4AAC at Antarctica's Palmer Research Station for his last
contact--actually a "bonus continent" not required to earn WAC. During
that QSO, Fincke and Chuck Kimball, N0NHJ, compared and contrasted life
in their respective outposts.
After returning to Earth in October, Fincke said he's not sure everyone
in the NASA community understands and appreciates what Amateur Radio
means for the rest of the world. Fincke said he'd also like to do make
the first Amateur Radio contact from the moon. .
[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]
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