As some of you have recently commented, the ISS is currently not active. This is not by design and I am currently investigating the source of the problem. I hope to have the radio back up and operational as soon as possible but will have to wait for available crew time to help resolve the
issue.

Hopefully, you will see the ISS return to active operations in the next few days.

Kenneth - N5VHO

Expedition 9 landed safely in Kazakhistan at 00.36 UTC of Sunday 24 October 2004.
The crew is doing fine.

Had a short QSO with Mike on his last day. He remarked on the Red Sox, Fall in New England, and how much he enjoyed his time on the station.

Glenn - KB1GUE

ON October 23, 2004 at 330 am the iss was coming right over head of lincoln Nebraska so i decided to step outside with my ht ... Expecting to hear just packet, i heard mr. finke (NA1SS) talking to a station in mexico and michigan so tried my luck and went to 144.49 sim and listened on 145.8 nex thing i knew he was calling my callsign, right back at me FULL SCALE like he was sitting right next to me.....

Sending Email via ISS is pretty easy!
Most modern software like UISS, APRS, UI-VIEW etc have the capability of creating a message to a user. This uses UI frames (unproto) via a digipeater to send a "message� usually consisting of 1 line. Instead of entering in a callsign you enter EMAIL (all in caps most software already does) as the recipient.....

A second ARISS School Contact has been scheduled for Yuri Shargin during his short stay onboard. Friday October 22nd 2004 around 0838 UTC, pupils of the primary school "Zonnebloem" (Turnsole) visiting the Science Exhibition in Hasselt, Belgium will have the opportunity to put their questions to the Cosmonaut:

Received from Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, ARISS Europe chairman:
Tuesday October 19th 2004, high school students of Pori, Finland talked with Cosmonaut Yuri Shargin onboard the International Space Station.

The radio contact was established at 07:13 GMT when the ISS rose over the horizon in Pori. The Cosmonaut had already been calling the ground station OH1F in Pori a minute before and had been heard calling in western Europe.

Dear friends,
issfanclub.com wants to thank the incredible work done by the Expedition 9.
To do so we set up a special public gallery where you can upload your pictures and comments for the crew.

Thursday October 14th 2004, a Soyuz vehicule left Baïkonour for the Internation Space Station. Onboard is ISS expedition crew 10: astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov. The third seat will be occupied by visiting crew member Yuri Shargin.

We have an agreement with Energia, the Russian Space Agency, for two ARISS School Contacts to be performed by Yuri Shargin during his short stay onboard.

Yesterday I spoke with Sergei Krikalev. He was in Moscow but during this weekend he will fly to Houston again.
Sergei greets all the members of the ISS FanClub but unfortunately, due to the overload work, he hasn't possibility to come here to write directly a message.