On the 1711 EDT pass I had a very good conversation with Cmdr . Korzun and he is looking forward to the arrival of the STS-112. He said it will keep them very busy with the 3 EVAs' that are planned. He was making many contacts in the US and also Canada. Arthur N1ORC

Packet Mail problem
Shuttle Launch expected
MAREX-NA News
Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division
By Miles Mann WF1F,

ISS astronaut Susan Helms,kc7nhz,who was very active on ham radio from the International Space Station, has left NASA and returned to her primary job as an Air Force Colonel.

I have a 4 element Yagi beam installed on a tripod in my balcony. This is the antenna I use for VHF communications. It's a fix mount, so I can't rotate or elevate the antenna. I have pointed towards North and aproximately about 5 degrees elevation.

Info from Frank H. Bauer and Miles Mann.
A1 - B1 - B6 ? How many channels ?
Frank:"The Ericsson MP-A radios have a bank of 64 discrete frequency channels.
Four zones (A-D) with 16 frequencies in each zone".

Submitted by Scott WA6LIE
I had the same type of experience with MIR.
We had a good evening pass which was visible!!
To boot, I had several neighbors outside watching MIR pass overhead.

By Miles Mann WF1F
MAREX-NA News
Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division

Great ISS evening voice pass.

On the evening of September 29 2002 at 23:50 UTC the amateur radio community in the eastern half of the USA were treated to a very rare space station event.

Submitted by KD4SFF
Hi All
I attended the South Carolina Wings Weekend held at the Greenville downtown airport, which I assisted with an amateur radio display.
The guest speaker at Saturdays evenings Wings dinner was South Carolina astronaut / ISS Expedition 3 Cmdr Frank Culbertson Jr.

We have just received a message from the Commander Valery Korzun aboard ISS about Progress M-9 docking scheduled for today in the evening 17:05 UTC.