NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named two astronauts and two cosmonauts to make up the the next International Space Station crew, Expedition 15. Astronauts Clayton Anderson, KD5PLA, and Daniel Tani, KD5TXE, will travel to the station next year as flight engineers. While their duty tours will not coincide, if the current schedule holds, there will always be at least one US and one Russian radio amateur aboard the ISS for the next year. Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, and Oleg Kotov will spend six months aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Hello,
I am new to amatuer radio, about to take my exam and get licensed.
I would like to do voice and packet data to the ISS.

However I am wondering what equipment is good for this.
Can a handheld 2m radio do the job? What entry level radio's would
people recommend? I was looking at the Kenwood D700 but some
people say it does not have good buffer space for packet, and fills
up quickly.

Any advice, or pointers on where to look would be helpful.
Perhaps if this website, each member could describe their equipment
somewhere - that would be useful for beginners like me.

Thanks

Hello,
I am going for my Technician license pretty soon and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what some good equipment would be to get for communicating with the ISS?

Thanks,

Jason

I am trying to organize an ISS contact for the scout troop as part of jamboree on the air on Oct 21st. I have a 5/8ths antenna and a 65W transmitter. Is there any way to get on the schedule so that we aren't trying to contact them while they are sleeping?