[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline 1342 - May 2, 2003

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Amateur Radio Newsline 1342 - May 2, 2003

The following is a Q-S-T.  An all ham crew takes over the International 
Space Station, another new record on 136 Kilohertz and the FCC asks the 
Amateur Auxiliary to help clean up the 10 meter band.  Find out more on 
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1342 coming your way right now.
 
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HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  TWO-MAN EXPEDITION 7 HAM RADIO CREW ARRIVES AT ISS

A two ham Expedition 7 crew arrived at the International Space Station on 
April 28th to replace the crew currently on board.  Amateur Radio 
Newsline's Roy Neal, K6DUE, has the rest of the story:

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There are five men in the crew aboard the International Space Station.  
Those numbers ARE different.  Now that U S  Space Shuttles are temporarily 
out of commission, the Russian Soyuz has been pressed into service as a 
ferry.  Much of its space is filled with food and supplies and the crew 
size has been cut from 3 down to 2 for the time being.  

Two men...cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP and astronaut Ed Lu, KC5WKJ, 
have arrived....the first teamever to get to the I S S aboard a Russian 
spacecraft.  They will replace 3 men...Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP,  Don 
Pettit, KD5MDT, and Nikolai Budarin, RV3FB.  That team is scheduled to fly 
back to earth on the third of May, using a Soyuz that has been docked in 
orbit since the Columbia shuttle disintegrated  killing all seven people on 
board.

A NASA investigation apppears to be centering on a piece of foam insulation 
as the cause of disaster...foam that broke loose during liftoff, hitting 
the Shuttle's left wing.  

A final report on the accident may be several more months in coming.  Until 
then Russia's Soyuz is the only crew transport to and from the i s s  and 
the International Space Program has slowed to a mere trickle of its former 
self. Space officials of the 9 countries directly concerned with building 
and flying the shuttle are optimistic, saying the delay gives them time 
better to prepare for the very complex missions of the next ten years.  

Roy Neal, K6DUE

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The two man Expedition 7 crew will spend the next six months on-orbit 
conducting scientific experiments.  Because of the reduced workload they 
may also have more time for additional ham radio operations and especially 
school contacts from space.  (ARNewsline from published reports)

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ENFORCEMENT:  AMATEUR AUXILIARY ASKED TO ASSIST FCC IN 10 METER CLEAN-UP

Back on Mother Earth, the FCC has asked the assistance of the ARRL' s 
Amateur Auxiliary as part of a clean-up of illegal users of the 10 meter 
band.  In a memorandum issued on April 28th,  FCC Special Counsel Riley 
Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, asks the Auxiliary's help for the next 6 months in 
identifying any unlicensed operation using the 10 meter Amateur spectrum.