NASA will discuss the Expedition Six crew's activities in a briefing on Jan. 14, beginning at 1 p.m. CST (1900 GMT). Topics covered during the briefing will include Expedition Six's spacewalk, which is slated to occur about 6 a.m. CST (1200 GMT) Jan. 15. NASA TV will provide coverage of both events.

More info: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2003/03-007.txt

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/index.html

73 pe2jmr

ISS crew too busy for Packet:
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) International
Chairman
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, has requested that amateurs refrain from sending.....

Last night at 2345 my time I was expecting to here some packet on 145.800 ( I know it's off ) when I heard Don chatting to some Australian Ham operators.

If anyone would like to hear the recording check out alt.binaries.radio-scanner.

All the best,

JOHN

Don was active on voice from the ISS this morning on the 13:12 -> 13:26 pass.
I hear him chatting with a station in Port Orchard, Wa.

A big thanks to Scott WA6LIE for reporting the actual situation of the Ham Radio station onboard ISS.

13:15 UTC PACKET SYSTEM is ON

Don also on voice over USA!

Your reports are very useful because here in Europe we will have ISS first pass only for this night at 01:29 UTC. We hope to have other news during next pass over USA.

73 de IK1SLD Claudio

for the ISS FanClub Staff

Hello, since January 1, 2003 at 17:13 UTC we haven't received any transmission from ISS Amateur Radio Station.

Probably the Crew forgot to change the mode to packet after the voice contact over USA or after ARISS scheduled contact, but we are not sure.

Have you any VOICE report after Jan. 1, 2003 at 17:13 UTC ?

Latest frames received from Space were:.....

MARCONI WIRELESS CENTENNIAL – January 11-19, 2003
Celebrating The 100th Anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s First Wireless transmission between the United States and Europe on January 11 – 19, 2003.

Today several messages are reporting the ISS Crew on voice during passes over USA.

Here we publish some reports about these contacts.

The ISS FanClub Staff

During the period of the 11th through the 19th of January 2003 the Marconi Radio Club of Massachusetts will operate a special event station to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's first spark gap transmission between the United States and Europe.
The original 1903 message was a greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt
to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.
The ISS has confirmed a communication schedule with the Marconi Special Event Station.Info here

ISS Packet Mail box is over half full.

On December 17, 2002 I logged into the ISS Personal Message System (PMS)
and counted over 174 mail message on the PMS waiting to re read or
deleted.