I just talked with Valery Korzun and he says the Shuttle launch will occur on Monday and all is going well and no problem.

Mission Control had been shut down earlier in the week due to the potential threat from Hurricane Lili but it is ready to support countdown activities Sunday.

I have a 4 element Yagi beam installed on a tripod in my balcony. This is the antenna I use for VHF communications. It's a fix mount, so I can't rotate or elevate the antenna. I have pointed towards North and aproximately about 5 degrees elevation.

Estimated STS-112 launch time calculated with DOS Program "STS2ISS" Ver. 0.2 01.06.2002 author Udo, DL7OL

Oct 7th earliest STS-112 will launch. Hurricane Threat to Mission Control Forces Launch Delay.The potential threat of Hurricane Lili to the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, forced Space Shuttle Program managers to push the launch of STS-112 back to Monday.

ISS MESSAGE LIST ?

Info from Frank H. Bauer and Miles Mann.
A1 - B1 - B6 ? How many channels ?
Frank:"The Ericsson MP-A radios have a bank of 64 discrete frequency channels.
Four zones (A-D) with 16 frequencies in each zone".

So we finally have a winner: KC7QYR Michael from Seattle is the lucky winner of the IFC gift.

To pick is name up we used a computer program wich generated a random number between 1 and 130 (the range of numbers where the first 100 valid subscribers where located).

We a valid number (101) at first try.

Michael wins a wonderful picture of the ISS crew#1 signed by Krikalev and Gidzenko at the Iss Forum 2001 in Berlin.

Congratulations Michael !

Scheduled QSO´s?

MOSCOW, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Russia's space agency will not give up participation in the International Space Station despite funding hardships that have brought its chief spacecraft manufacturer to the brink of financial collapse, a space official told United Press International Friday.

CAPE CANAVERAL -- Just when it seemed Kennedy Space Center dodged Hurricane Lili, the storm appears to be headed for Houston's mission control center, potentially delaying Wednesday's launch of shuttle Atlantis.