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Subj: ARISS Announces Roy Neal, K6DUE, ISS Commemorative
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 320.03 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. November 16, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
international team has announced an on-the-air event to commemorate Roy
Neal, K6DUE, who died August 15. ARISS has requested that the ISS
Expedition 8 crew of commander Mike Foale, KB5UAC, and Alex "Sasha"
Kaleri, U8MIR, communicate from space with earthbound radio amateurs
during the November 29-30 weekend. Those contacting the ISS by voice
(NA1SS) or packet (RS0ISS) through the end of December will be eligible
for a special anniversary event certificate.
"Our good friend and noted NBC news correspondent Roy Neal, K6DUE (SK),
had a vision---to make Amateur Radio a permanent feature on human
spaceflight missions," said ARISS Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, and
Sergej Samburov, RV3DR, in making the announcement.
A retired NBC News science correspondent, producer and executive,
Neal--born Roy N. Hinkel--chaired the Space Amateur Radio EXperiment
(SAREX)/Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
Working Group. Through his extensive NASA contacts, Neal was
instrumental in convincing NASA management to fly Amateur Radio onboard
the space shuttle, Bauer said. He also credited Neal with being
instrumental in forming the ARISS international team and moderating its
gatherings.
Human spaceflight took the first step to Neal's vision on November 28,
1983, with the launch of the first Amateur Radio station aboard the
space shuttle Columbia. A few days later, astronaut Owen Garriott,
W5LFL, became the astronaut to speak from space via ham radio.
In October 1988, a Russian Amateur Radio team led by Sergej Samburov,
RV3DR, and Larry Agabekov, UA6HZ/N2WW, launched and deployed the first
amateur station on the space station Mir. During the AMSAT-NA symposium
the following month, Leo Labutin, UA3CR (SK), communicated with
cosmonaut Musa Manorov, U2MIR, aboard Mir.
Amateur Radio communication from the ISS began three years ago this
month. On November 13, 2000, Expedition 1 crew members Sergei Krikalev,
U5MIR, and Bill Shepherd, KD5GSL, spoke with R3K, the Energia amateur
station in Russia, and with NN1SS, the ISS ground station at Goddard
Space Flight Center in Maryland. The successful deployment and use of
the ARISS gear marked the first permanent Amateur Radio station in
space--and the fruition of Neal's vision of some two decades earlier.
"On behalf of the ARISS international team, we congratulate the
international Amateur Radio community on these exceptional
accomplishments and commemorate Roy Neal, K6DUE, for his vision and
tremendous support to ARISS team," Bauer and Samburov said.
ARISS request that participants in the special event keep all contacts
short. A subsequent announcement will provide details on QSLing and how
to obtain certificates.
[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information.]
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