Phenomenal ARISS contact today with Astronaut Tim Kopra and the students participating in the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium contact-ARISS contact #1000! Our telebridge team at W6SRJ Santa Rosa, CA, USA, led by Tim Bosma, W6MU, picked up Tim Kopra a few seconds into the pass with 20 questions answered. Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, who was station operator for Contact #1 in December 2000 was the moderator for this 1000th contact.
Thanks to all for making this astounding achievement possible!!
73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chair
AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs
Congratulations to the ARISS Team for making this, the preceding 999, and hopefully the next 1000 contacts a reality!
I had to head to an appointment and happened to hit the road out just before AOS here in Texas, and heard ISS on my mobile rig very well for about the last 5 minutes of the telebridge pass. It was great fun to listen to!
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 3/10/2016 13:34, KA3HDO wrote:
Phenomenal ARISS contact today with Astronaut Tim Kopra and the students participating in the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium contact-ARISS contact #1000! Our telebridge team at W6SRJ Santa Rosa, CA, USA, led by Tim Bosma, W6MU, picked up Tim Kopra a few seconds into the pass with 20 questions answered. Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, who was station operator for Contact #1 in December 2000 was the moderator for this 1000th contact.
Thanks to all for making this astounding achievement possible!!
73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chair
AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs
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