December 21, 2005
SPACE PATROL
On Christmas day 25
December 2005
and on Monday 26 December, ARISS Russia and the Russian Space Agency
Roscosmos/Energia, set up a special event called SPACE PATROL.
Several Cosmonauts,
among whom Sergei Krikalev and Aleksandr Kaleri, will operate amateur radio
from Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia as well as from GCTC, the
Yuri Gagarin Russian Cosmonaut Training Centre.
On Christmas day
Korolev club station R3K will be operational on HF at 12:00 UTC. Frequencies will probably be 7080KHz, 14180KHz and 21280KHz.
On Monday
26 December 2005,
GCTC club station RK3DZB will possibly be operational same time, same
frequencies.
Moreover, on Christmas
day and on Monday 26, during the evening passes over Europe and Russia, RS0ISS will be operating phone on 145.990MHz
simplex.
The times of the passes
are:
25 December 2005: 20:56 UTC
26 December 2005: 19:47 UTC.
These times are valid
for Moscow. Over western Europe, times will be about 10 minutes earlier.
A special SPACE PATROL
award will be available. Details will be published later.
Good luck on working
Cosmonauts on VHF and on HF!
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COLUMBUS
The ARISS L/S-band
antennas for Columbus will be delivered to EADS, Bremen in the next few days. Installation will
be done in January 2006.
The Columbus working group is making progress on the
project for Ham equipment onboard Columbus. Minutes of the meetings per
teleconference are available on the Columbus page of the ARISS-Europe website www.ariss-eu.org
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
73
Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman