On 22/07/2015, John Brier johnbrier@gmail.com wrote:
This is what I understood too, but why do they use the lower power HT for ARISS school contacts? Is it because they have that headset for it that makes it easier to hear questions perhaps? On Jul 22, 2015 10:09 AM, "JoAnne K9JKM" joanne.k9jkm@gmail.com wrote:
One radio is in the Colombus module and used by European, Japanese, US etc.
The other radio is in the Russian segment.
At the moment the Russian segment is being used for school contacts as there is no astronaut in the European section with a licence.
So two radios, two different locations. There was a high power radio in the Colombus module but it is not working. The handheld is a backup, currently in use.
The two sections are as such independent, with co-operation. There are different voltages in different sections which also makes moving equipment from one to another very difficult. The section used depends on the Nationality of the astronaut. SSTV always seems to be Russian, probably due to equipment in that module. Packet is always European, as far as I know.