Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
I believe they all have ham tickets, however few "real" hams 73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted" k7trkradio@charter.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:32:49 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
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Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too that ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir. It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such aboard now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family. Ham radio is an off duty activity and that time is at a premium. The primary focus of ham radio now is education or educational inspiration of s,cool children to encourage study in science, technology, engineering and math. The space the equipment fills can always be reassigned as NASA desires.
I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it seems to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be while doing little to push forward although always ready say what should be done. The real hams aboard ISS while they may not be 30 wpm brass pounders or members of amsat from back in the good old days of free launches are real hams because they choose to give some of their free time, they are not required to, they make the choice to, spend in 10 minute bits with a room often of hundreds, hope and passion for learning, the desire to explore and the need, reason and necessity to continue to do so, just as the real hams of old brought the rest of us kicking and screaming from AM to SSB and beyond.
John AG9D
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On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Bob- W7LRD w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:
I believe they all have ham tickets, however few "real" hams 73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted" k7trkradio@charter.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:32:49 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
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On 30/01/2013 9:30 PM, Personal wrote:
Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too that ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir. It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such aboard now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family.
I don't generally get into these types of verbal banter, but this time I make an exception. Right now a Canadian, Chris Hadfield, is onboard and doing a great job with pictures and Twitter. I see today that he did a live feed to a school here in Ontario. The part that bugs me is there were a few ARISS Ham contact before Christmas that did not show up till the day of the contact. The Canadian RAC site had no mention of it on their site and still is stuck in November.....
I read a lot of AMSAT/ARRL news letters and I have suddenly realized that the ham community is out of it altogether. It would appear that starting this year NASA themselves is looking after the contacts. I would have thought that the ham community would have been in an uproar over this, guess not.
I know that the chances of hearing or contacting the ISS is like winning the lottery, but I think now it is long gone. I am disappointed that when an USA or Russian is onboad you may hear them once or twice. I doubt that you will ever hear Chris at the mic......... he seems to be caught up in social media.
I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it seems to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be
No I do not feel that way, I try all kinds of stuff when I have the time. Mind you I see the day when the radio will have an iPhone built in, and we will no longer need the the communication devices we have now.
Long live the smell of the big tube Collins and Heathkit rigs
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Jeez, John...thanks for the lecture...I just wanted a shot at a qsl card..
Maybe I'll have better luck contacting the Monkey in the iranian satellite (the 'ghost' one that was side by side by side with the north korean 'ghost' satellite)..
Oh well..at least I'll have the memory of watching the first moon landing on a 13" B&W TV with a bunch of girls that worked at Disneyland, next to the pool in an apartment complex a few blocks away from Tomorrowland....ah, those were the days !
73, Ted, K7TRK (No Code VUCC #226)
p.s. and I don't give a rats ass what they do up there....if they have a ham license, they can spare a few minutes to play on the radio !!
-----Original Message----- From: Personal [mailto:johnag9d@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:31 PM To: Bob- W7LRD Cc: Ted; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: hams on ISS
Remember they don't get paid to sit up there on the radio. Remember too that ham radio in manned space flight has changed since SAREX and Mir. It's no longer the back up system it once was. They have iPods and such aboard now. There is Internet access and a telephone to speak with family. Ham radio is an off duty activity and that time is at a premium. The primary focus of ham radio now is education or educational inspiration of s,cool children to encourage study in science, technology, engineering and math. The space the equipment fills can always be reassigned as NASA desires.
I'm not sure what the definition of a real ham is but too many times it seems to be a person stuck in the past, bemoaning the things that used to be while doing little to push forward although always ready say what should be done. The real hams aboard ISS while they may not be 30 wpm brass pounders or members of amsat from back in the good old days of free launches are real hams because they choose to give some of their free time, they are not required to, they make the choice to, spend in 10 minute bits with a room often of hundreds, hope and passion for learning, the desire to explore and the need, reason and necessity to continue to do so, just as the real hams of old brought the rest of us kicking and screaming from AM to SSB and beyond.
John AG9D
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On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Bob- W7LRD w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:
I believe they all have ham tickets, however few "real" hams 73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted" k7trkradio@charter.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:32:49 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] hams on ISS
Any hams on the ISS at this time ?
73, Ted, K7TRK
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