[Scanner] First of 4 Ham Radio Antennas Installed During Lastest ISS Spaewalk!

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Here are three excerpts from a recent Space Station press release from 
NASA-Johnson Space Ctr that should make a lot of us happy.  Now all we have 
to do is ascertain the freqs they will use on the new antennas.

AL STERN   Satellite Beach FL 

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 Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight Engineer Carl Walz floated outside the 
International Space Station on the first spacewalk of their expedition and 
finished installing a second Russian cargo boom, part of which had been 
delivered to the station two and a half years ago.  With coordination help 
from inside the station by Flight Engineer Dan Bursch, the two space walkers 
also installed an amateur radio antenna on the Zvezda Service Module. . . . 

Onufrienko and Walz also installed an amateur radio antenna on a handrail at 
the end of the Zvezda service module. The antenna is one of four that 
eventually will allow space station crew members to make Ham radio contacts 
from the comfort of their living quarters inside Zvezda. Currently, the 
amateur radio station is inside the Zarya module. . . . 

The next spacewalk of the expedition - to be conducted by Onufrienko and 
Bursch - is targeted for Jan. 25. The plan for this spacewalk currently 
includes installation of the remaining three amateur radio antennae and 
thruster deflector shields on the end of Zvezda.