i understand that although the tmd700 is working is has a fault condition

a possible solution would be to reprogam the radio using a laptop
and people are trying to get the project approved
but it is difficult

like many others i would like to see it back on crossband repeater mode

the tmd700 is not manually easy to program even when you have the manual in front of
you and you are on the ground

we live in hope

73 ian

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Students from four European schools will have the opportunity to talk with US astronaut Sunita Williams KD5PLB over amateur radio in the next two weeks:

• Monday April 23 at 14:50 UTC : Scuola Europea Varese, located near Milan, Italy

• Saturday April 28 at 14:19 UTC: Samuel-von-Pufendorf Gymnasium, located in Floeha, Germany

• Saturday May 5 at 10:24 UTC: Liceo Scientifico Statale "Lorenzo Respighi", Piacenza, Italy

• Saturday May 5 at 13:34 UTC: Erweiterte Realschule Weiskirchen, Germany.

The school in Varese will benefit from a "telebridge" operated by the Australian ARISS groundstation VK4KHZ.

Hello all.

We still don't have a logo. I am sure that out there we have some skilled and creative designers who might be willing to help.
The competition for the IFC logo is officially started.
The winner will receive credit having a tiny "IFC LOGO CREATED BY ..." on the logo itself.

Fell free to post your proposals here or mail them directly to me: alain at alain dot it
Thanks!

Alain

Five professional astronauts and an American visitor to the International Space Station (ISS) expressed grief Thursday for those killed and wounded during a student gunman'sattack at Virginia Tech this week.

"All of us on the International Space Station are deeply saddened by the tragic news from Virginia Tech University," U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi, who is due to return to Earth Saturday with the outpost's homecoming crew aboard a Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft, wrote in his Web site blog. "We may be many miles away physically but our hearts are with the students, their families and university communities everywhere and we are grieved by the lives and contributions that have been cut short. Our thoughts and prayers"

Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi are back on Earth. They landed safely southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan at 8:31 a.m. EDT. (1231 GMT)

Back on the station is Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams. Williams had been a member ofExpedition 14 since December. She will remain with Expedition 15 until this summer.

Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotovlaunched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 7.

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