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Subject: ISS Commemorative Event
From:"Frank H. Bauer" <ka3hdo@comcast.net>
Date:Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:25:21 -0500
To:sarex@AMSAT.Org
All,
I wanted to provide an update on the ISS Commemorative event. I have
included a copy of the original e-mail that Sergej Samburov and I sent out
a few weeks ago, for your reference.
The U.S. team have gotten word that Mike Foale is hoping to get on the
radio sometime this weekend for a couple of passes. He also stated that
he is anticipating supporting about 2 passes per weekend through the month
of December. This, of course, is completely contingent upon his schedule
and other duties or issues that might crop up on ISS.
We have provided Mike a list of potential passes for this weekend. These
are shown below. It is our expectation that Mike will probably
concentrate on a couple of passes over North America and/or and Europe
this weekend, but we cannot be sure of this. So our advice is to be
listening where ever you live in the world.
The passes shown are during the times that the ISS Ham radio team have
been given permission to schedule school group operations and general
operations (i.e. within a specified period when the crew is awake). We
added an additional pass on November 30 from 21:21-21:39 UTC which is
outside these constraints. It is a better pass for North America.
However, it is unclear if this will be uplinked to Mike. Again, I would
listen in if I were you.
To reiterate: depending on Mike's schedule, he hopes to be on the air for
a couple of the passes shown.
Please don't forget the frequencies (see below).
Also, regarding the special event certificate---please do NOT send for it
until you have received explicit QSL instructions from the ARISS team on
this. We are in the process of developing and printing the certificate,
so please hold off on sending in your QSL until we give you specific
envelope size directions.
I wish you the best in your pursuits to contact the ISS. Remember, please
be brief in your QSOs so we can get a lot of participation.
73,
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
Pass Times:
-------------- U.S./North America ---------------
Nov 29 0727-0741 UTC West coast
Nov 30 0802-0811 UTC West coast
1816-1828 UTC East coast
1946-2003 UTC Mid-west and East Coast
21:21-21:39 UTC Mid-west and East Coast
-------------- Europe/Russia --------------
Nov 29 1444-1500 UTC East
1618-1635 UTC Central
1755-1812 UTC West, North, East
1932-1948 UTC North
Nov 30 1345-1357 UTC East
1516-1533 UTC Central
1652-1709 UTC West, North, East
1830-1846 UTC North
-------------- Japan ---------------
Nov 29 0844-0856 UTC North
1022-1032 UTC North
1158-1209 UTC North
1334-1345 UTC Central
1511-1519 UTC South
Nov 30 0741-0754 UTC North
0920-0930 UTC North
1056-1106 UTC North
1231-1243 UTC Central
1408-1418 UTC South
-------------- Australia -----------
Nov 29 1655-1712 UTC East
1830-1840 UTC West
Nov 30 1553-1610 UTC East
1728-1745 UTC Central
1905-1922 UTC West & South
ARISS International Team News Release:
November 10, 2003
Roy Neal, K6DUE, ISS Commemorative Event Planned by the ARISS team
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.
On November 28, 1983, the first step to Roy's vision was taken with the
launch of the first amateur radio station on the STS-9 Space Shuttle
Columbia mission. A few days later, Astronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL.
became the first on-orbit crew member to talk from space.
15 years ago, in October 1988, the Russian Amateur Radio team, led by
Sergej Samburov, RV3DR and Larry Agabekov, UA6HZ/N2WW, launched and
deployed the first amateur radio station on Mir. On November 12, 1988 at
the AMSAT-NA symposium in Washington DC, Leo Labutin, UA3CR (SK), started
amateur radio operations by communicating with cosmonaut Musa Manorov,
U2MIR on-board Mir. Soon thereafter, hams all over the globe were talking
with the cosmonauts and astronauts through the Mir amateur radio station.
The first amateur radio communications from the ISS started 3 years ago
this month. On November 13, 2000, from the ISS, Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR
and Bill Shepherd, KD5GSL, could be heard talking to the ham radio teams
located at the Energia amateur radio station, R3K, in Russia and the
Goddard ISS ground station, NN1SS in the USA. Roy's vision was suddenly
realized with the deployment and first operation of a permanent amateur
radio station on ISS.
To commemorate Roy Neal's vision and dedication to the development of
amateur space communications, the ARISS International team will be
sponsoring a special event activity with the ISS crew. We have requested
that the ISS Expedition crew communicate with ground-based radio amateurs
during the weekend of November 29-30. Those who contact the ISS by voice
or packet during this weekend and through December 2003 will be eligible
for a special anniversary event certificate.
Please remember the ARISS frequencies:
Voice and Packet Downlink: 145.80 (Worldwide)
Voice Uplink: 144.49 for Regions 2 and 3 (The Americas, and the Pacific)
Voice Uplink: 145.20 for Region 1 (Europe, Central Asia and Africa)
Packet Uplink: 145.99 (Worldwide)
Please keep all contacts short as others will want to work the special
event.
Specifics on QSL verification and certificate distribution will be
provided in a follow-on news bulletin.
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.
73,
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
Sergej Samburov, RV3DR
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