Bob. The odds of getting a "real ham" are pretty small in my view. There will be the occasional person who is either interested in the effort pre launch or gets that way due to circumstances aboard the station, but that's going to be rare particularly as long as the folks doing the flying are "NASA employees".
What I would hope for more is a real ham setup on ISS. something other then a digi or a psuedo FM bird. A real transponder would be nice.
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO (Life member AMSAT ARRL NARS)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:47:31 +0000 From: w7lrd@comcast.net To: pisymbol@gmail.com CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [AMSAT-BB] ISS, what the heck happened?
This may open a can of worms-However, I'd like to see a "real" ham on the ISS. We all know what that means. Granted they all take the tech license to be "official" amateur radio operators. However we don't see the "passion" in the belly to get on the air. There have been a few up there that had that and it was noticable.
73 Bob W7LRD
Seattle
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From: "Alexander Sack" pisymbol@gmail.com To: "amsat-bb" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 4:08:17 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] [AMSAT-BB] ISS, what the heck happened?
So I think everyone read the announcement ARRL made before FD. Now that FD weekend is at an end, can someone explain to me why NASA couldn't let the astronauts have 10 minutes on the radio for one pass? I mean were they having issues with the radio itself?
I still don't see a 26th timeline as I thought that might give me a clue on why this weekend was an epic failure (I mean I couldn't even hear the digipeater at times).
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