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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/J5GX6MFVCLP5BO3KHXICYIMOQXU5I7JT/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "J5GX6MFVCLP5BO3KHXICYIMOQXU5I7JT", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/J5GX6MFVCLP5BO3KHXICYIMOQXU5I7JT/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k1hzu1 (a) yahoo.com", "mailman_id": "fae6be3c237f438ebc5b2ac66898f229", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/fae6be3c237f438ebc5b2ac66898f229/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Pete Norris", "subject": "[amsat-bb] MARK AUSTIN KB1GRV", "date": "2011-08-16T17:30:57Z", "parent": null, "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DUUN2GSREQ7M7THV37SW2BNOA7H3LYP3/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "\n\nHi all:I received this from Phil, N1EP. I thought there would be a number of you that might like to know.Pete, K1HZU\n\nHello Folks,\n\n\n\nIf you have not heard already, local (Franklin/Ellsworth) ham Mark Austin,\nKB1GVR, became a silent key on August 8. Graveside services will be this\nThursday, Aug 18, at 11AM at Woodbine cemetery in Ellsworth. \n\n\n\nMark was very prolific in space communications. In 2002, he told me that he was\nlistening to his scanner, I think in 1997, and heard Russian voices coming over\nthe speaker about every hour and 36 minutes. He discovered the voices were from\ncosmonauts on board the Mir Space Station. He then started recording their SSTV\nbroadcasts and then went out and bought his first computer so he could see the\npictures he had previously recorded from the Soviet slow scan TV\ntransmissions. That inspired him to earn his ham ticket so he could talk\nto the cosmonauts. And talk, he did. Since then, Mark has become well known\naboard the space shuttles and International Space Station by many astronauts\nand cosmonauts.\n\n\n\nNot only has Mark talked to them on voice mode, but became extremely proficient\nat using the space station and satellites to communicate digitally. He even\ndiscovered a new way of using one particular satellite to extend communication\ncapability.\n\n\n\nMark had the opportunity to meet some of the spacemen he had befriended\non-the-air when he made visits to Mission Control in Houston and to Kennedy\nSpace Center, where he also was thrilled to watch a shuttle launch. \n\n\n\nHis enthusiasm with space communications inspired many hams to give it a try,\nincluding myself. His advice was spot on so that I twice successfully made\nvoice contacts to the space station. I also had fun with Oscar-14 with Mark's\ntips. If you operated an APRS station in Maine, you would recognize the KB1GVR\ncall sign, as Mark was also an avid APRS fan.\n\n\n\nMark's other pastimes included racing and flying with his brother in his plane\nwhere his same determination brought him lots of success, rewards, and joy. The\nwalls of Marks home were decorated with the many ham radio and racing\ncertificates and awards he had earned and his vast collection of space\ncommunications QSL cards is amazing, as many EAWA members can attest to as Mark\nhas brought them in for display in the past.\n\n\n\nMark was only 50 years old, but in his too-short life, he accomplished a lot.\nAs N1DP said on last night's Washington County ARES Net, Godspeed Mark. We will\nmiss you.\n\n\n\n73, Phil Duggan, N1EP\n\n \n\n\n", "attachments": [] }