[TCARC-NTx] Fwd: The ARRL Letter, Vol 21, No 17

[david johnson]

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> ***************
> The ARRL Letter
> Vol. 21, No. 17
> April 26, 2002
> ***************
> 
> IN THIS EDITION:
> 
> * +"Big Project" inspires big response to
> fundraising appeal
> * +Second "space tourist" heads for the ISS
> * +Florida kids, French teacher log successful ARISS
> contacts
> * +Fatal train wrecks prompt ARES activations on
> both coasts
> * +IMAX "Space Station" film lauded
> * +ARRL in prime time at NAB
> *  Solar Update
> *  IN BRIEF:
>      This weekend on the radio
>      KM1CC sets International Marconi Day special
> event
>      ARRL added to 2002 Combined Federal Campaign
>     +ARRL will process members' license renewals,
> address changes
>      YHOTY nomination deadline nears
>      Kolibri-2000 satellite transmitting on 2
> meters, 70 cm
>      Thor Heyerdahl of Kon-Tiki fame dies at 87
> 
> +Available on ARRL Audio News
> 
>
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> 
> ==>BIG RESPONSE TO "BIG PROJECT" CAMPAIGN
> 
> Thanks to the generosity of the amateur community,
> the ARRL Education and
> Technology Program--"The Big Project"--is better
> than one-quarter of the
> way to its 2002 Phase I funding goal. The program
> already has signed on 18
> pilot schools. Several already sport new ham
> stations, paid for by
> donations to the program. A curriculum now under
> development will be ready
> for beta testing this fall.
> 
> "The strength of the membership campaign is vitally
> important to our
> corporate and foundation grant appeals," said ARRL
> Chief Development
> Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH. "It sends a message that
> the membership
> supports this initiative." Hobart said members
> already have contributed
> $70,000 during the membership appeal that began in
> March with a goal of
> $252,000--much of that expected to be in the form of
> individual
> contributions.
> 
> The ARRL Education and Technology Program--the
> educational initiative of
> ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP--is aimed at
> providing a turnkey Amateur
> Radio curriculum, station equipment and classroom
> resources to schools.
> Program Coordinator Jerry Hill, KH6HU, says the
> experiences of the pilot
> schools will help to shape the ultimate project
> design.
> 
> As the current school year winds down, Hill has
> turned his attention to
> curriculum development. Initially aimed at the
> middle school classroom,
> the planned curriculum--to be embodied in The Radio
> Lab Handbook--will
> offer educators a lot of flexibility in choosing how
> to use it (the
> finished curriculum will be posted on the ARRL Web
> site). Hill says it
> will be able to serve as a half-semester standalone
> unit of classroom
> study, but teachers will be welcome to use the
> material in whole or in
> part as it works best for them.
> 
> "We want schools to make this their own program,"
> Hill said. "We want
> teachers to look at this as a way to supplement or
> support what they're
> already doing in the classroom--not replace it."
> Most schools, he
> predicted, will use the ARRL Education and
> Technology Program as an
> enrichment program--perhaps outside of regular
> classroom hours--or as a
> separate ham radio licensing class.
> 
> The wide-ranging, multidisciplinary curriculum will
> dovetail information
> on Amateur Radio within the broader topic of
> wireless technology.
> Discussion will include devices that youngsters
> might more readily
> recognize such as pagers, cellular telephones, GPS
> and wireless Internet
> access devices. Amateur Radio rules and regulations,
> operating and
> procedures will be covered in separate units, "since
> licensing is not the
> main focus of what we're trying to do here," Hill
> said. Several pilot
> schools already have a few students licensed,
> however, and others have
> classes under way.
> 
> Hill said a strong focus will be hands-on
> activities, such as building a
> simple crystal radio or conducting experiments that
> demonstrate
> wave-propagation theory. "These are types of
> activities that require the
> student to physically do something and take some
> responsibility for their
> own learning," Hill said.
> 
> Hill would like to see pilot school participants
> share ideas, experiences
> and activities, but he also wants the schools to
> establish ties with the
> local Amateur Radio community--as some already have
> done. "We're asking
> the schools to partner up with a local ham club," he
> said. "The idea is to
> build a relationship between the school and the club
> and provide some
> technical assistance."
> 
> Hill says he's open to ideas and suggestions from
> both educators and
> amateurs "so we can involve more than just the
> schools." He wants to see
> the ARRL Education and Technology Program involved
> in communities, not
> just schools.
> 
> "They're the next generation," Hill said of Big
> Project participants,
> present and future. "We're going to need these
> people to take our places."
> For more information, contact Jerry Hill, KH6HU,
> jhill@arrl.org. Donations
> are welcome too, via the ARRL Amateur Radio
> Education and Technology
> Program Web site <http://www.arrl.org/education>.
> 
> ==>SECOND "SPACE TOURIST" EN ROUTE TO ISS; AMATEUR
> CONTACTS PLANNED
> 
> Space tourist and amateur researcher Mark
> Shuttleworth this week journeyed
> to the International Space Station. The South Africa
> native, who now lives
> in London, and his two crewmates--Russian cosmonaut
> and ISS veteran Yuri
> Gidzenko and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto
> Vittori, IZ6ERU,
> blasted off April 25 from Russia's Baikonur
> Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz
> vehicle. They were scheduled to arrive at the ISS
> April 27. During their
> eight-day stay, Shuttleworth and Vittorio are
> scheduled to speak via
> Amateur Radio with youngsters at schools in South
> Africa and Italy.
> 
> "This live communication represents a major turning
> point for the image of
> South African education," Shuttleworth said in a
> statement released by a
> South African marketing firm he's hired, "and puts a
> group of our school
> learners uniquely into the global spotlight of space
> exploration."
> Shuttleworth, 28, has been issued a "temporary,
> honorary Amateur Radio
> station license" by the Independent Communications
> Authority of South
> Africa. The license, good for three months, bears
> the call sign ZS
> RSA--not an amateur configuration.
> 
> If successful, the contacts will mark the first
> ARISS QSOs with schools in
> Africa. The initial contact is set for Monday, April
> 29, with
> Shuttleworth's alma mater, Bishops in Cape Town.
> Students in three South
> African provinces submitted questions, the best of
> which will be posed by
> winners of a nationwide competition. Additional
> contacts are on the ARISS
> roster with three other South African schools.
> Vittorio is scheduled to
> attempt a direct 2-meter ARISS contact with a school
> in Italy on May 4.
> 
> Shuttleworth's adventure, which NASA calls "a
> private commercial agreement
> with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency," is
> costing him an estimated
> $20 million. After the visit of the first space
> tourist, businessman
> Dennis Tito, KG6FZX, almost a year ago, NASA, Russia
> and the other
> international partners established some guidelines
> for future visits of
> this type. As did Tito, Shuttleworth says space
> travel has been a lifelong
> dream.
> 
> According to media accounts, Shuttleworth has
> rankled at being described
> as a "space tourist." He points out that he's
> trained eight months for the
> mission. In addition, Shuttleworth says, he and
> Gidzenko have been trained
> by Russian and South African biologists in how to
> carry out genetic
> engineering studies using animal stem cells while
> aboard the ISS.
> 
> The crew's primary mission is to deliver a fresh
> Soyuz spacecraft to the
> ISS, where a Soyuz craft remains available as a
> lifeboat. The trio will
> return to Earth in early May aboard the Soyuz
> spacecraft now attached to
> the station. Gidzenko, a veteran of the ISS's first
> resident crew, will
> become the first former resident to revisit the
> complex.
> 
> ==>FLORIDA YOUNGSTERS, FRENCH TEACHER QUIZ ASTRONAUT
> VIA HAM RADIO
> 
> Youngsters at Shenandoah Elementary School in
> Orlando, Florida, and a
> teacher in Arles, France, this week chatted via
> Amateur Radio with
> astronaut Carl Walz, KC5TIE, operating NA1SS aboard
> the International
> Space Station. The contacts were arranged by the
> Amateur Radio on the
> International Space Station (ARISS) program.
> 
> On April 23, 15 Shenandoah Elementary pupils were
> able to talk with Walz
> about life aboard the ISS. One youngster, Alessandra
> Patteson, wanted to
> know if Walz was able to communicate with his family
> while in space and,
> if so, how often. Walz explained that he speaks with
> his family almost
> daily using an Internet telephone system.
> 
> Another student, Charles Babir, asked Walz if he had
> time to read while
> aboard the ISS and, if so, what he enjoyed reading.
> Walz said that he
> reads several electronic newspapers, including the
> New York Times.
> 
> Austin Gentry posed an out-of-the ordinary question:
> "What would you do if
> your ship went out of control because of a black
> hole?" Walz allowed that
> such an unlikely occurrence would be scary, since
> the ISS would not be
> able to escape a black hole. He went on to explain
> that the ISS did
> experience control problems some time ago because of
> computer problems,
> and that the controllers in Houston and Moscow
> helped the crew to regain
> control of the spacecraft.
> 
> Kimberly Campbell, KG4IZR, did double duty as both
> the organizing teacher
> and the control operator at Shenandoah. Assisting
> were local amateurs Joe
> Singer, N4IPV, who provided a lot of the equipment;
> Ed Cox, K3SWJ; and Lou
> McFadin, W5DID.
> 
> On April 25, schoolteacher Christophe Candebat,
> F1MOJ, at the Louis
> Pergaud Primary School in Arles, France, got a
> chance to interview US
> astronaut Walz as his young charges and students
> from a second school
> observed. Invited to the demonstration were students
> of the nearby Lycee
> Jeanne d'Arc. During the contact, Walz answered 16
> questions as
> Jean-Pierre Roux, F1EVQ, operated the station for
> the direct contact.
> 
> Walz answered questions in English. To overcome the
> language barrier, two
> teachers translated his answers into French and
> displayed them on a
> computer screen so the pupils could better
> understand what was being said.
> 
> ARISS-Europe representative Gaston Bertels, ON4WF,
> called the Arles
> contact "a splendid success" that culminated a
> longstanding educational
> project. Bertels said that for the past two years,
> the class has been
> involved in projects centered on space science. The
> youngsters' studies
> incorporated mathematics, French, history,
> astronomy, geography,
> physiology, botany and radio-wave propagation.
> 
> "They observed the apparent movement of the sun,
> built models and sundials
> as well as a meteorological station," Bertels
> explained. The pupils also
> participated in the Starshine 2 and Starshine 4
> projects
> <http://www.azinet.com/starshine/index.html> by
> polishing aluminum mirrors
> for the satellites.
> 
> ARISS is an international project, with US
> participation by ARRL, AMSAT
> and NASA. For more information, visit the ARISS Web
> site
> <http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov/>.
> 
> ==>ARES TEAMS ACTIVATE FOLLOWING FATAL TRAIN WRECKS
> 
> Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) teams in
> California and Northern
> Florida activated recently to assist in the wake of
> separate train wrecks.
> 
> In Florida more than half the cars of an Amtrak
> "Auto Train" carrying 418
> passengers and 34 crew members derailed April 18
> near Crescent City.
> Putnam County ARES established emergency
> communication from the site--on
> the Putnam/Volusia county line--shortly after the
> wreck and also staffed a
> shelter and two hospitals. Four people died as a
> result of the mishap and
> more than 100 others were injured.
> 
> Billy Williams, N4UF, of Florida Crown District
> ARES, said the American
> Red Cross responded in the accident's immediate
> aftermath. Red Cross
> communications were set up on a VHF repeater with
> help from Duval County
> amateurs. Other amateurs pitched in to staff a Red
> Cross shelter and the
> Putnam County emergency operations center. ARES
> members also were deployed
> at a local hospital as well as at hospitals in
> Jacksonville that were put
> on alert to receive patients.
> 
> Within 15 minutes of the wreck, the Florida Crown
> Emergency Net activated
> on a linked repeater system. A third repeater served
> as a base of
> operation for Putnam County ARES, under the
> direction of Putnam County
> Emergency Coordinator Mark Bradford, WF3F. That
> repeater was linked to a
> Jacksonville repeater (W4IJJ) to handle Red Cross
> requests between the
> Jacksonville Red Cross Headquarters and the scene of
> the wreck some 60
> miles away, Williams said.
> 
> The shelter and triage center at Crescent City High
> School reported a peak
> population of more than 300 via Amateur Radio--most
> believed to be
> passengers who were able to walk away from the
> scene. Amtrak later bussed
> remaining passengers from the shelter to hotels for
> the night, and the
> amateur operation was able to shut down.
> 
> More than a dozen hams assisted in the ARES
> response. Additional details
> are on the North Florida Amateur Radio Society
> Balanced Modulator Web site
>
<http://home.earthlink.net/~bfwillia/_wsn/page4.html>.
> 
> In California, a freight train collided head-on
> April 23 with a Metrolink
> double-decker commuter train. Ironically, the mishap
> occurred just as
> hospitals and emergency responders in Orange County
> were about to hold a
> large-scale drill to test patient triage and
> transportation procedures for
> mass casualty incidents.
> 
> Two dozen members of the Hospital Disaster Support
> Communication System
> (HDSCS)-- a special ARES group that always
> participates in the drill--were
> awaiting assignments when word came in of the train
> collision. Two
> passengers were killed and more than 200 were
> injured--many seriously.
> Orange County ARES Emergency Coordinator and HDSCS
> Net Control April
> Moell, WA6OPS, immediately assigned the drill-ready
> hams to the 14
> hospitals expected to receive crash victims. For the
> next 4-1/2 hours, 28
> HDSCS members provided vital links among the
> hospitals, the county's
> ambulance dispatch center and the county's emergency
> medical service
> agency.
> 
> Net traffic included verifying victim dispatch and
> patient counts,
> providing hospitals with information for inquiring
> family members, and
> liaison with hams supporting the Red Cross. Within
> some hospitals, hams
> provided direct communication among triage areas,
> emergency departments,
> and command posts.
> 
> Moell is founder and Emergency Coordinator of the
> ARES group. More
> information is available on the HDSCS Web site
> <http://www.hdscs.org>.--thanks to Billy Williams,
> N4UF and Joe Moell,
> K0OV
> 
> ==>IMAX FILM SPACE STATION CALLED "BREATHTAKING
> 
> ARISS International Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO,
> used the words
> "fantastic" and "breathtaking" to describe the world
> premiere of the IMAX
> film Space Station on April 16 and 17. The film, now
> showing (or scheduled
> to show) in selected theaters nationwide, includes a
> segment on the
> Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
> program. ARISS set up a
> display booth at the movie's opening at the National
> Air and Space Museum
> in Washington, DC.
> 
> "It was pretty awesome to see Bill Shepherd [KD5GSL]
> talk to the Texas
> students with our ARISS equipment in 3D," Bauer said
> afterward. "This is a
> must-see movie." Space Station is the first 3D IMAX
> space movie. Made
> possible by NASA, the film is presented by Lockheed
> Martin and narrated by
> Academy Award nominee Tom Cruise.
> 
> Seabrook Intermediate School in Texas provided the
> earthbound setting for
> ARISS' role in the IMAX production. Footage with
> Shepherd answering a
> question during a school contact was shot in January
> 2001 during
> Shepherd's tour of duty as Expedition 1 commander.
> The question segment
> and the answer segment then were matched up during
> editing for the final
> production.
> 
> Bauer said that seeing Space Station is the closest
> one can get to
> experiencing space without actually going there. "It
> was spectacular from
> the perspective that you really felt like you were
> there," he said.
> 
> The ARISS display at the National Air and Space
> Museum premiere attracted
> visits from member of Congress, Bauer said, as well
> as officials from
> NASA, IMAX and Lockheed Martin.
> 
> Among the special guests were Shepherd, the ISS
> Expedition 1 crew
> commander; Yuri Usachev, the Expedition 2 commander,
> Brian Duffy, N5WQW,
> an ardent SAREX/ARISS supporter on several shuttle
> flights; Toni Meyers,
> the IMAX film producer; and Jack Dailey, the
> museum's curator.
> 
> "We now have a permanent legacy in film," Bauer
> said. For more
> information, visit the IMAX Web site
> <http://www.imax.com/spacestation/>.--AMSAT News
> Service provided some
> information for this report
> 
> ==>ARRL GETS IN SOME PRIME FACE TIME AT NAB CONFAB
> 
> ARRL officials this month took advantage of the
> National Association of
> Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas to promote
> Amateur Radio among
> members of the broadcasting community--many of them
> already amateur
> licensees themselves. ARRL President Jim Haynie,
> W5JBP, this year became
> the first League president to attend the annual NAB
> gathering since it's
> been held in Las Vegas. While there, he also met
> with local amateur
> leaders and spoke at the Las Vegas Amateur Radio
> Club meeting.
> 
> Other ARRL officials attending the April 8-12
> convention included Pacific
> Division Director Jim Maxwell, W6CF, and Vice
> President Fried Heyn,
> WA6WZO--the former Southwestern Division Director.
> "President Haynie,
> Director Maxwell and I covered a lot of ground,"
> Heyn recounted.
> 
> The ARRL booth--larger than in years past--was
> managed by Bill and Carolyn
> Cornelius, K8XC and K9XC, with help from volunteers
> who included Nevada
> ARRL Section Manager Jan Welsh, NK7N. Heyn thanked
> NAB Vice President for
> Science & Technology John Marino, KR1O, for hosting
> ARRL at the show,
> which typically draws some 100,000 attendees.
> 
> Haynie also greeted those attending the popular
> Amateur Radio
> reception--sponsored by Kenwood Communications and
> CQ Communications. The
> reception drew an estimated 600 to 800 amateurs.
> Haynie briefly mentioned
> ARRL's Amateur Radio Education & Technology Program
> ("The Big Project")
> and said he hoped to be back again next year to
> promote it at the NAB
> gathering.
> 
> Heyn said the ARRL contingent found several of the
> NAB convention programs
> of particular interest. These included separate
> breakfast sessions hosted
> by FCC Chairman Michael Powell and by Sen Conrad
> Burns of Montana and six
> members of the US House. Heyn noted Burns'
> pronouncement that Congress
> needs to provide better guidance in the radio
> spectrum allocation and
> management arena. The Montana Republican told
> broadcasters he plans to
> file a spectrum reform bill, and he predicted a two
> to three-year battle.
> Burns sits on the Commerce, Science and
> Transportation Committee--the same
> panel that now has the Amateur Radio Spectrum
> Protection Act bill before
> it. He's the ranking minority member of the
> communications subcommittee.
> 
> The Senator also said he hopes to see the empty
> Democratic seat on the FCC
> filled soon. The White House nomination of Jonathan
> Adelstein is tied up
> in Senate political wrangling. Burns has said he
> backs Montana Public
> Utilities Commission member Bob Rowe for the job.
> 
> Heyn said after the show, "My general impression was
> that 'the digital
> age' is coming together."
> 
> ==>SOLAR UPDATE
> 
> Helio-honcho Tad Cook, K7VVV, Seattle, Washington,
> reports: The big news
> this week was the geomagnetic storms. Stormy
> conditions reigned
> continuously from Wednesday through Saturday, and
> the geomagnetic indices
> rose again on Tuesday.
> 
> A check of geomagnetic data from NOAA
> <gopher://solar.sec.noaa.gov/00/latest/DGD> tells
> the story. Most HF
> operators are comfortable when the A index is ten or
> lower and the K index
> is three or below. Currently it looks like
> geomagnetic indices could rise
> again on Saturday, but to a level indicating
> unsettled conditions rather
> than a storm.
> 
> Looking at the numbers, both sunspots and solar flux
> were lower this week,
> with average sunspot numbers down nearly 38 points
> and average daily solar
> flux off by more than 28 points. Sunspot count and
> solar flux reached a
> minimum on Monday and are on the way back up. Solar
> flux is expected to
> return to 200 around May 1 and may peak around 215
> May 4-5.
> 
> Sunspot numbers for April 18 through 24 were 160,
> 182, 185, 160, 155, 180
> and 256, with a mean of 182.6. The 10.7-cm flux was
> 188.2, 179.7, 177.3,
> 173.4, 169.9, 175.3 and 176.9, with a mean of 177.2.
> Estimated planetary A
> indices were 54, 44, 62, 7, 12, 22 and 7 with a mean
> of 29.7.
> 
> __________________________________
> 
> ==>IN BRIEF:
> 
> * This weekend on the radio: The SP DX RTTY Contest,
> the Helvetia Contest,
> the QRP to the Field event, and the Florida and
> Nebraska QSO parties are
> the weekend of April 27-28. JUST AHEAD: The AGCW
> QRP/QRP Contest, the IPA
> Contest (CW May 4; SSB May 5), the MARAC County
> Hunters Contest (CW), the
> 10-10 International Spring Contest (CW), the
> Microwave Spring Sprint, the
> Indiana QSO Party, the ARI International DX Contest
> and the New England
> QSO Party are the weekend of May 4-5. See the ARRL
> Contest Branch page
> <http://www.arrl.org/contests/> and the WA7BNM
> Contest Calendar
> <http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html>
> for more info.
> 
> * KM1CC sets International Marconi Day special
> event: Special event
> station KM1CC will operate for International Marconi
> Day April 27 (UTC)
> from Cape Cod National Seashore in
> Massachusetts--not far from the Marconi
> shore station site. Plans call for operation on
> 80-meter CW, 40-meter CW
> and SSB and 20-meter SSB. Some 2-meter FM operation
> also make take place.
> KM1CC trustee Barbara Dougan, KB1GSO--a park ranger
> and education
> coordinator at Cape Cod National Seashore--says
> plans call for eventually
> setting up a semi-permanent amateur station with
> grant funds.
> International Marconi Day takes place each year on a
> weekend close to the
> birthday of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.
> 
> * Submarines on the Air set for this weekend: More
> than 30 museum
> submarines worldwide will participate in the
> Submarine Veterans Amateur
> Radio Association
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVARA/> Submarines On
> The
> Air special event April 27-28. The Saratoga Club in
> Providence, Rhode
> Island, will be on the air as W1S from the Russian
> Juliett Class Submarine
> (No. 484), a new addition to the list of museum
> submarines. W2SUB aboard
> the Lionfish, in Fall River, and WW2MAN, the Seehund
> U-5075 Amateur Radio
> Association in Quincy, both Massachusetts, will be
> on 20 CW. The
> International List of Museumships (including call
> signs) can be found on
> the Web
> <http://www.marinefunker.de/eng/shiplist.html>.
> Contact Jim
> Flanders, W0OOG, w0oog@arrl.net, for more
> information on SOTA.
> 
> * ARRL added to 2002 Combined Federal Campaign: The
> ARRL now is
> participating in the 2002 Combined Federal Campaign
> (CFC), a program that
> supports and promotes philanthropy by federal
> employees. The CFC is the
> only authorized solicitation of employees in the
> federal workplace on
> behalf of charitable organizations. ARRL now appears
> in the listing of
> "National/International Organizations" published in
> each local CFC
> campaign brochure. Federal employee donors should
> use the CFC
> identification number 9872 in designating their
> contributions to ARRL. For
> more information, visit the Combined Federal
> Campaign Web site
> <http://www.opm.gov/cfc>.
> 
> * ARRL will process members' license renewals,
> address changes: ARRL
> members daunted by the FCC's Universal Licensing
> System
> <http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls> can ask Headquarters
> to file their license
> renewal or change-of-address applications free of
> charge. ARRL members
> wishing to take advantage of this service should
> download Form NCVEC 605
> (that's the form used by volunteer exam
> coordinators) from the ARRL Web
> site <http://www.arrl.org/fcc/ncvec605c.pdf>, print
> it, fill it in and
> mail it to ARRL VEC, 225 Main St, Newington CT
> 06111. The response of
> those wanting ARRL to process renewals has been very
> positive. For the
> first three months of 2002, ARRL handled 1721
> applications for members--up
> from 514 for the same period in 2001. The ARRL VEC
> staff now can process
> any member's FCC license application request, except
> for a vanity call
> sign application. Remember: Renewal applications may
> only be filed within
> 90 days of your license expiration date.
> 
> * YHOTY nomination deadline nears: Nominations close
> May 30 for the
> Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award
> for 2002. Created in
> 1986, the award recognizes one young radio amateur
> under the age of 18 in
> the continental US for his or her contributions to
> society through Amateur
> Radio. Nominating forms and additional information
> are available at the
> Amateur Radio Newsline Web site,
> <http://www.arnewsline.org>. All
> nominations and materials required by the official
> rules must be received
> by Amateur Radio Newsline by May 30, 2002.
> 
> * Kolibri-2000 satellite transmitting on 2 meters,
> 70 cm: The
> Russian-Australian scientific-educational
> Kolibri-2000 microsat--has been
> launched into space from the International Space
> Station (see
> "Space&Beyond: Kolibri-2000 Shows Youngsters That
> Space is Vital to
> Mankind," by Tony Curtis, K3RXK
> <http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2001/12/16/1/>).
> Now known as RS-21,
> the satellite has been sending telemetry on 435.835
> and 145.825 MHz.
> Scientific equipment aboard includes a ternary
> flux-gate magnetometer and
> electric field and high-energy particle analyzers.
> The microsat was
> delivered to the ISS aboard a Russian Progress cargo
> rocked launched last
> November 27. Prior to jettisoning the rocket, ISS
> Crew Commander Yuri
> Onufrienko, RK3DUO, positioned a transport/launch
> container holding the
> satellite in the Progress vehicle's hatch. After the
> transport cargo
> vehicle separated from the ISS March 20 and reached
> a specified distance,
> the satellite was launched following a radio command
> from Earth. For
> additional information, visit the Kolibri 2000 Web
> site
> <http://www.kolibri2000.ru> (in Russian) or e-mail
> Aleksandr Papkov,
> plis@kaluga.ru.
> 
> * Thor Heyerdahl of Kon-Tiki fame dies at 87: Noted
> Norwegian explorer and
> ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl died April 18. He was 87.
> In 1947, Amateur
> Radio played a critical role in the success and
> safety of Heyerdahl's
> 101-day Kon-Tiki raft expedition, which used the
> call sign LI2B on the
> amateur bands. Heyerdahl was attempting to prove
> that it was possible for
> South American tribes to have crossed the Pacific
> from east to west to
> settle the Polynesian islands. Two former World War
> II Norwegian
> underground radio operators, Kurt Haugland, LA3KY,
> and Torstein Raaby,
> operated LI2B aboard the Kon-Tiki using tube gear
> powered mostly by dry
> batteries. LI2B kept a schedule with W1AW and other
> US stations during the
> historic voyage.
> 
>
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