From AMSAT Sarex reflector:
Two veteran crewmembers will make up the 12th crew of the International Space Station since continuous human presence began on the orbiting laboratory in November 2000.
In addition to marking the fifth anniversary of this uninterrupted presence of men and women in space, the crewmembers also will bring the Station into the new year and welcome the resumption of Space Shuttle flights to their home in orbit.

Live audio and video streaming of the event from:

http://www.streamingwizard.com/clients/space.asx

73, Howard G6LVB

Hello All,

First I want to thank all people who have cooperated on the Happy Birthday Sergey CD!
The happy birthday Sergey event was at 27-august-2005, Sergey was active that day to thank the amateurs for the congratulations.
I have posted the CD today to Kenneth (N5VHO) and he will do every attempt to give it to Sergey when Sergey comes back on earth.
I have designed a nice CD with covers!
I've added the ISSFANCLUB logo and ISSFANCLUB URL on the CD, so I hope Sergey gives (and visit) a comment in the ISSFANCLUB!
Inside the CD are audio recordings (from the birthday event), pictures and comments.
At this link you can see the covers: CD Cover
You can not see the pictures, and comments of the operators cause I want to keep the personal comments (and pics) private.

73's Cor PD0RKC

On Thursday September 8 at 13:08 UTC, Progress 19P lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Included in the 2.5 tons of fuel, food and supplies are two Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) systems---the Suitsat amateur radio hardware and the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) hardware and software. The successful docking of Progress to ISS on September 10 culminates the successful design, development, certification and delivery of these two ARISS Projects. The ISS Expedition 11 crew will unpack this equipment, making it available for installation, use and deployment by the Expedition 12 crew.

The next International Space Station's Expedition 11 ARISS school contact will be with students at the Sanderson High School in Sanderson, Texas, USA on Thursday, 22 September 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:08 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and KD5HYB, so it should be audible to anyone in the southwest United States and northern portions of Mexico listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Another great sighting of the ISS last night over Kentucky. We are suppose to have another one tonight, so it dont get any better. Get all the people you know together and enjoy. for all those scanner land people. 145.800 you never know what you might here proably mostly packet burst, but you may get lucky and hear one of the crew talking. For more info on the sightings times I suggest downloading Satscape...its a freebie..... another great free program is UISS if you have this a cable to run from the sound on your scanner to the line in on your computer your all set to start copying those strange noises on the frequency above. good luck and happy hunting

73's
KD4PQF

The next International Space Station's Expedition 11 ARISS school contact will be with students at the Matthew J. Kuss Middle School in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA on Friday, 16 September 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:27 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and W1ACT, so it should be audible to anyone in the northeast United States and southern portions of Ontario and Quebec listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

From Scott Avery, WA6LIE:
Who knows when the ISS digipeater will be in service again.I know everyone at ARISS is doing what they can to get it going.
In the meantime... how about PCSAT2?
It is a crossband digipeater.
145.825 Uplink and 435.275+- Doppler Downlink.

Most of us have dualband radios these days.

From Kenneth, N5VHO:
The Kenwood packet system on 145.80 (145.99 uplink) seems to be having trouble again. First the BBS failed a couple of weeks ago and now the digipeater seems to have stopped working too. The crew was asked to cycle the power on the radio yesterday (Sep 13) but the system seems to have not recovered yet. In previous cases, the system eventually was restored.

The packet system on PCSAT2 is still functioning on 435.275 (145.825 uplink) and science data telemetry (9600 baud) is still being down linked on 437.975

(http://www.pcsat2.info/PCSat2Web/index.do

Kenneth - N5VHO

Hello All,

Every APRS station wich have internet should become an IGATE station!!!
I have made an easy manual to make your APRS station also a IGATE station!
First I shall explain what an IGATE station is. APRS stations send their beacons on the air, the IGATE station receive the beacons and send it to internet.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/ariss/index.cgi