19 Dec
2007
19 Dec
'07
4:34 p.m.
Nate Duehr wrote:
It seems that during SAREX, more crews were active. ISS crews seem either a lot busier (less personal time for ham radio?) or are generally a lot less interested --
I had a chance to speak with our hometown astronaut Suni Williams recently, and she indicated that access to other forms of communication, specifically e-mail and VoIP phones, have become available to the astronauts making radio less interesting to those astronauts not already bitten by the ham bug.
-Joe KM1P