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The "Round Table" mode is a keyboard to keyboard form of communication.
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How to obtain the Roy Neal Special Event Certificate

All,

I have been sifting through the many e-mails I have received over the past few days regarding ISS ops. I will attempt to clarify some of the observations many of you have made as well as some of what has been seen from the ISS Ham radio system since about a week ago....

The ARRL Letter and The American Radio Relay League report that Astronaut Mike Foale, KB5UAC, fired up the new Phase 2 Amateur Radio on
the International Space Station (ARISS) equipment December 21 to make a
number of 2-meter contacts with amateurs around the world. The Expedition
8 commander completed QSOs with amateurs in Australia, Europe and North
America from 1100 to approximately 1700 UTC.

[ARRL] NEWINGTON, CT, Nov 11, 2003--The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) international team has announced an on-the-air event to commemorate Roy Neal, K6DUE, who died August 16. ARISS has requested that the ISS Expedition 8 crew of commander Mike Foale, KB5UAC, and Alex "Sasha" Kaleri, U8MIR, communicate from space with earthbound radio amateurs during the November 29-30 weekend.

Today (November 9. 03) at 1205z I had a short contact with Michael Foale on board the ISS. I also heard him say hes working on getting the packet station running, and he will be on Voice more often. Gerry, VE6GP

The ARRL Letter and The American Radio Relay League report that the new two-ham crew of Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Foale, KB5UAC, and Russian Cosmonaut and ISS Flight Engineer Alexander "Sasha" Kaleri, U8MIR, officially took over the reins of the
International Space Station this week. A formal change-of-command ceremony
took place Friday, October 24

The ARRL Letter and The American Radio Relay League report that during a Symposium, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, outlined the delivery of the
so-called Phase 2 ham equipment to the ISS. A Progress rocket already has
delivered a Kenwood TM-D700E VHF/UHF transceiver to the ISS. The unit will
mean a significant boost to the power output of the ARISS initial station
gear--from 5 W to 25 W.

ARISS Chairman, Frank Bauer, asks USA & Russian space agencies to increase ham radio operation and maintenance aboard ISS.
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• Michael Foale, KB5UAC
• Alexander Kaleri, U8MIR
• Pedro Duque, KC5RGG
• Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP
• Ed Lu, KC5WKJ

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