Hello All,

Here is a picture collection (from NASA) with the hamradio station in ISS!

Enjoy!!!! 73's Cor PD0RKC

Click MORE for the links.

Hello All,
The happy birthday Sergey event on 27 August was a big success.
Thanks to ISS Fan Club!!!
Kenneth (N5VHO) came with the idea to create a CD with audio recordings, shack pictures with the operators, and a small comment from the operators.
I (PD0RKC) will make the CD with a nice cover, but I need your help!
If you had a contact with Sergey on 27 August, please send the requested items above to:
isszarya@hotmail.com
I will send the CD to Kenneth at JSC NASA space center USA, and he will make every attempt to get it to Sergey

73's Cor PD0RKC
http://pd0rkc.mine.nu

YES, I TALK AGAIN WITH SERGEY KRIKALEV ONBOARD INTERNACIONAL SPACE STATION. A LOT STATIONS OVER SOUTH AMERICA TALK WITH U5MIR.
WHEN I SAD: HAPPY BIRTHDATE SERGEY KRIKALEV
HE SAD: THANK YOU MAURICIO PY4MAB I TALK WITH YOU NOW.
I ASK ABOUT JHON PHILIPS, REPEATER MODE AND PACSAT 2. I TALK WITH U5MIR 2 TIMES. THIRD TIME ISS PASSED OFF OVER SOUTH AMERICA.
SERGEY IS A VERY SIMPLE PERSON AND SAD ALL ABOUT MY QUESTIONS. THANK'S SERGEY KRIKALEV AND ISS FANCLUB FOR HELP US WITH QUESTIONS AND OTHER'S.

MAURICIO BERALDO PY4MAB
BRAZIL
GREAT GREAT GREAT

Between all the successful stories of people sending greetings to Sergei Krikalev the story of Maryam 9K2MD probably deserves special attention.
Maryam is a young girl from Kuwait City who got her Amateur Radio licence this year just to be able to talk to Sergei Krikalev.
I met her when I noticed that a good amount of the visitors coming to this website were being referred by her blog that talks about space.
She got immediately interested about the possibility of actually talking to the ISS and so she started studying to become an amateur radio operator.
I think the process was more complicated than what it would have been in the USA or here in Europe. For sure it took much more time, but at the end she did it.
Then she managed to find and buy a VHF radio and after many tries, with the help of her little sister who kept turning and elevating by hand a 5 elements yagi she finally succeeded.

Congratulations Maryam!

Sergei was very active over South-America and I heard U5MIR talking with several stations from Argentina and Brazil.
I had a pass with 20 degrees of elevation and after a few calls Sergei replied with: "Claudio are you?" because probably he did not believe to listen my call from another part of the World :)
I think Sergei was very happy to hear so many stations sending congratulations and Feliz Cumple to him.
On the latest pass over Argentina at 20:41 UTC NO Packet and NO Voice heard.
Thanks again for the contacts.

Hello All,

Today many amateurs have send birthday greetings to astronaut Sergey Krikalev via hamradio!
I had a internet audio chat with my Friend PY5RX and I could hear Fabiano talking to Sergey.
You can listen the audio QSO via:
http://pd0rkc.mine.nu

Good luck to all others in the world!

73's Cor PD0RKC

Congratulations to ESA French astronaut Leopold Eyharts who took and passed his amateur radio exam! His new callsign is KE5FNO. Eyharts is a backup crew member for Expedition 12.

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm

We are looking for a volunteer satellite packet
station in Hawaii that is interested in helping withtelemetry and sat-gating of PCSAT2 and
ARISS packets. Requirements are:

1) General familiarity with packet
2) TNC connected to a cross band radio that
can RX on UHF and TX on VHF.
3) modest UHF beam and rotator system.

Thanks
Bob, WB4APR

The packet system on 145.80 is now working and John Phillips had a successful school contact this morning (1544 UTC) with the Higgins Institute
in Tempe, Arizona.

The crew is scheduled to perform a spacewalk tomorrow and the amateur radio equipment will be shutdown about 1200 UTC to support that activity. The equipment is expected to return to service once post EVA reconfiguration
actions are accomplished.

Kenneth - N5VHO

On orbit 385l8 at 13.59 utc 8-16-05 I heard on 437.977.3 Mhz. a packet signal not to loud for about 1 minute. Gus. WA4MCJ