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event operation from the National Baby Food Festival.  Yes, there really 
is a National Baby Food Festival and W1B will operate the General class 
areas of 75, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters while its underway.  And if you 
work this one, you QSL with a self addressed stamped envelope to Shawn 
Gibson, KC8LGD, 3377 West 80th Street in Newaygo Michigan.  Gibson's 
zipcode is 49337.  (Via Internet Posting) 
 
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HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  RUSSIA SAYS BASS LIKELY TO FLY TO ISS 
 
The Russian space company Rosaviakosmos has announced that N*SYNC singer 
Lance Bass has signed a preliminary contract and is officially a 
candidate for a Russian mission to the International Space Station this 
October.  This, even the United States National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, which partners with the Russians on the space station 
project has expressed concerns that the pop musician may lack the proper 
education, endurance and fluency in Russian to undertake such a journey. 
 
But a spokesman at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome training center in says 
that within a week Bass will begin training.  The spokesman said that 
the singer should be able to cover enough ground to make the trip adding 
that three months was more than enough time to teach him the basics. 
 
Bass will be the third space tourist to pay Russia $20 million to visit 
the orbiting outpost. Previous space visitors were U.S. millionaire 
Dennis Tito KG6FZX and South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.  
Tito and Shuttleworth did find time to use the ham gear on board the 
station.  Bass interest in Amateur Radio operations from the ISS is 
still unknown.  (ARNewsline from published news reports) 
 
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RADIO IN SPACE:  LISTEN TO JUPITER ON YOUR HAM  TRANSCEIVER 
 
Want to hear what's happening on the planet Jupiter?  Just listen on the 
15 meter band.  So says Popular Communications Magazine in an article 
aptly titled Listening To Jupiter On Your Shortwave Receiver. 
 
No, you won't hear the latest scores from the Jupiter Red Sox playing 
the Mars Marlins.  What can be heard is the natural sound of the orange 
giant.  An electromagnetic wave that's emitted at irregular intervals by 
Jupiter that the article describes as a sweeping lighthouse like sound. 
 
All you need to listen in is a shortwave receiver that can tune the good 
old A-M mode and a decent antenna.  Exactly how to listen and what to 
listen for is on pages 8 and 9 o the August issue of the magazine.  
(PopComm) 
 
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INTERNATIONAL - NEW ZEALAND:  TECHNOLOGY CONVENTION 2003