[Az-Geocaching] Ham Radio + Russia + Spacesuite = fun Friday

[Trisha Brasher]

Since you mentioned the ISS, on 1/14/06 I made a contact with the ISS via
Ham Radio UHF, Cmdr Bill McArthur (KC5ACR) heard and repeated my call
(N7TMY) thru the probable pile up and I will get a QSL card! (I sent one
of course). They were using the International Space Sta. call sign of
NA1SS and we had contact as he passed over the NW USA on 437.550 MHz,
using a vertical w/ 35W!! Not bad, huh??

For the Hams in this group, this will mean something and they will
understand how cool this is.

For the non-Hams, sorry for the off-topic, but I couldn't resist telling
this way-cool story!

Trisha ~ Lightning

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: ShadowAce
  To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
  Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Ham Radio + Russia + Spacesuite = fun Friday
  Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:46:01 -0700

  Spread the word for those who might be interested....

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11102068/



  MSNBC.com

  Spacesuit goes overboard for unusual mission
  Worn-out suit recycled into miniature satellite sending out a radio
  beacon

  By James Oberg
  NBC News space analyst
  Special to MSNBC
  Updated: 2:52 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2006


  HOUSTON - It sounds like a scene from science fiction: A lone figure
  is cast off from the space
  station, getting smaller and smaller as it drifts out into empty
  space.

  In this case, however, no human will actually be at risk. When the
  crew members aboard the
  international space station toss a worn-out spacesuit over the side,
  it will be empty except for an
  interesting amateur radio experiment.

  During a spacewalk scheduled this Friday, astronaut Bill McArthur and
  cosmonaut Valery Tokarev will
  spend six hours carrying out assembly, repair and inspection work on
  the space station — and one
  photogenic feat of "space littering."

  It won't be the first time an old Russian spacesuit has been tossed
  overboard, but "SuitSat," as it
  is called, has an actual mission.

  A simple battery-powered radio transmitter inside the suit will use
  an antenna mounted to the suit's
  helmet to send signals down to Earth for up to several days. The data
  will include temperature
  readings, a slow-scan TV image and several specially coded messages
  for ham radio listeners to
  figure out.

  ~~~Much more on the website~~~~

  URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11102068/


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