International Space Station Commander, Astronaut Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, has been very active on the NA1SS amateur radio station aboard the ISS over the past several days. Since November 23, NA1SS has made over 50 contacts during brief operating opportunities. This past week, reports from Turkey, South Africa, South America and North America indicated NA1SS was calling CQ and making contacts.

The former Army Capt. Bill McArthur said "GO ARMY beat NAVY" recorded the pass. KB1GVR.

Did anyone get a recording of NA1SS voice contact
at 1916z over SE USA? And did he say Go Navy Beat
Army or Go Army beat Navy?

We will be using APRS to track the annual running of
the Army/Navy game ball from Annapolis to Philly
on Friday 2 Dec with WEB page:

http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/fball2005.html

de W3ADO US Naval Academy Club Station

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ARRL has released, for sale, the first edition of a brand new book, "Basic Radio, Understanding the Key Building Blocks." The first page of one chapter features a large NASA photograph of astronaut Leroy Chiao, who earned ham radio call sign KE5BRW. The descriptor explains that Leroy set a record in space. His record was making 23 educational radio contacts with school students while leading Expedition 10 aboard the International Space Station.

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I don't know how many of you also monitor http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/threads.html or http://oscar.dcarr.org/ but Bill McArthur has been very active over the past few days.

Yes gentleman´s I´m talk again with expedition 12, but this contact is diferent because i´m talk with Valery Tokarev to. first talk with Willian and William said about Tokarev and he coming. Tokarev is my 3 contact with russiam cosmonaut abord international space station.

Mauricio Beraldo PY4MAB
Brazil

great great great great great great great

AE7MC, 9 year old Mattie Clauson - made brief voice contact with Commander William McArthur on the ISS. Although the contact was brief, Mattie called "NA1SS this is AE7MC" and was acknowledged just as the pass faded out. Mattie is more excited than ever about trying to make further voice contacts with the crew aboard the ISS.
Mattie is using a Yaesu FT-3000 on a 20 amp Astron power supply feeding a Hustler G7 vertical antenna.
Visit Matties home page at: http://www.ae7mc.co.uk

ISS voice contact today 19/11/2005 at 18:58 UTC
with Bill McArthur, orbit 4017. Thanks to Bill
and good luck to Expedition 12.The ISS was coming
loud and clear here in the VE2 land, and Bill was
calling CQ,so good luck to everyone.
Jean-Pierre (VE2AHD)

Astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria is tentatively scheduled for amateur radio license training classes on November 16 and 17.

The last 6 unlicensed astronaut candidates (Randy Bresnick, Chris Cassidy, James Dutton, Shane Kimbrough, Tom Marshburn, and Bobby Satcher) from the class of 2004 attended their first amateur radio license training session on November 10.

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Five years ago this week, the International Space Station Expedition 1 crew of US astronaut and Expedition 1 Commander William "Shep" Shepherd, KD5GSL, and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR, became the first humans to inhabit the ISS on a long term basis. Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, who commands Expedition 12, the current ISS crew increment, took note of the occasion when he spoke with reporters this week.

"We've done things that were just inconceivable 50 years ago," McArthur said." I think that we have demonstrated that human beings can live and work in space, and, given the will, we can return to the moon not just to visit but to stay there permanently and in not-too-distant future, send people to Mars."

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