Packet operations aboard the ISS have been nonoperational since well before the Columbia loss. The inability of the current crew or NASA to engineer a fix may be symptomatic of larger problems within the agency.

More than 70,000 pieces of the space shuttle Columbia have been recovered in three months of searching in east Texas following the February 1 tragedy that claimed the lives of seven astronauts, NASA said Wednesday.

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It turns out that the QSO I heard on April 14th at 1700z was an ARISS contact with the Lounsbury Middle School in New Jersey.
73 all de Mark KB1GVR.

We have received on the net today a message from Siegfried DD1JSN about a Voice activity from the International Space Station over Europe.
Nikolai Budarin was calling CQ in Russian.
This is the message as received on the SAREX List.....

ISS Amateur Radio Status: April 10, 2003
Temporary MAREX Web Page

By Miles Mann WF1F,
MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division)

ISS Amateur Radio Status: April 4, 2003
French ISS Packet Operations Manual
Packet Status
Shuttle Status
SpaceCam1 project

By Miles Mann WF1F,
MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division)

After some corrections a new version of the program UP2ISS.EXE (Estimation of launch windows):

LAUNCH.EXE

73, Udo, DL7OL ***

Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
The Expedition Six crewmembers have completed another busy workweek aboard the International Space Station. Their major activity was a spacewalk conducted by Commander Ken Bowersox and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit.

Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
A remarkable week of spacewalk and science activities is winding down
for the International Space Station's Expedition 6 crew, Commander Ken
Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA ISS Science Officer
Don Pettit.

At 1700z Ken Bowersow was on the radio as making pass over eastern usa, Nice to hear this, now wish he'd turn the PKT on :-) 73
KB1GVR