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Subj: Hams Contact Atlantis/Mir Astronauts
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The SAREX Astronauts have been very active on voice this mission. The SAREX
team has received numerous reports of hams making contact with the STS-74
crew on this joint Shuttle/MIR mission. It should be noted that Canadian
Astronaut Chris Hadfield, KC5RNJ, received his Canadian Amateur License last
week. His Canadian callsign is VA3OOG. He has used this callsign on
several passes other North America; particularly when the Shuttle traverses
over Canada. MIR/Shuttle undocking is scheduled for 8:15 UTC on Saturday
November 18. The following bulletin was generated by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R
from the ARRL:
ARRL has received dozens of reports from amateurs that have made successful
voice contacts with the crew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Mir
Space Station Complex. The two spacecraft have been docked together since
Wednesday, and are orbiting 245 miles above the earth at approximately
17,500 mph.
Earlier this week, the Atlantis astronauts completed 5 scheduled ham radio
contacts with US students as part of the Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment or
SAREX. These groups included students from Franklin Junior High School in
Pocatello, Idaho, Norwalk County schools in Connecticut, Lake Street
Elementary School in Crown Point, Indiana, Round Lake-area schools in
Illinois, and Quimby Oak Junior High School in San Jose, California. The
students were assisted by their local Amateur Radio clubs and many AMSAT
SAREX volunteers.
Amateurs trying to make random contacts with the astronauts should be aware
the crew is using separate receive and transmit frequencies. Do not transmit
on the shuttle's downlink frequency. The downlink is your receiving
frequency. The uplink is your transmitting frequency. The FM voice downlink
is 145.84 MHz. The FM voice uplinks are 144.45 and 144.47 MHz. The crew will
not favor either uplink frequency, so your ability to communicate with SAREX
will be the "luck of the draw." Transmit only when the shuttle is within
range of your station, and when the astronauts are on-the-air. The
astronaut's call signs are KB5AWP, KC5NRI, N5SCW, KC5ACR, and KC5RNJ. There
is no hardware to support packet radio contacts from the shuttle during this
flight.
QSL cards and reports may be sent to ARRL EAD, STS-74 QSL, 225 Main Street,
Newington, CT 06111-1494, USA. Include the following information in your QSL
or report: STS-74, date, time in UTC, frequency and mode (FM voice). In
addition, you must also include a SASE using a large, business-sized
envelope (#10) if you wish to receive a card. The Greater Norwalk Amateur
Radio Club in Norwalk, CT has generously volunteered to manage the cards for
this mission.
Thanks to SAREX Volunteer Gil Carman, WA5NOM, at NASA Johnson Space Center
for generating the following Keplerian element set, JSC-914:
Mir-Atl
1 16609U 86017A 95319.63436307 .00005442 00000-0 65227-4 0 9141
2 16609 51.6445 119.1436 0002776 342.3991 17.7067 15.58119804556564
Satellite: Mir-Atl
Catalog number: 16609
Epoch time: 95319.63436307 = yrday.fracday
Element set: 914
Inclination: 51.6445 deg
RA of node: 119.1436 deg
Eccentricity: .0002776
Arg of perigee: 342.3991 deg
Mean anomaly: 17.7067 deg
Mean motion: 15.58119804 rev/day
Decay rate: 5.44200E-05 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 55656
Checksum: 319
Note: This element set is valid for the Atlantis/Mir docked configuration
until undocking on Nov 18 at 0815 UTC. The shuttle landing is scheduled at
the Kennedy Space Center, Florida for November 20, 1995 at 1734 UTC.
Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R
Assistant to the Manager
Educational Activities Department
American Radio Relay League
Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, for the SAREX Working Group
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