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- ARLS008 Shuttle pact for US, Russia
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- Space Bulletin 008 ARLS008
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington, CT February 8, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB SPACE ARL ARLS008
- ARLS008 Shuttle pact for US, Russia
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- Russian and American amateurs now aboard the space shuttle are
- benefiting from temporary third party and reciprocal operating
- agreements finalized just before lift-off.
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- On February 3 the US Department of State and the Russian Ministry of
- Post and Telecommunications each approved the temporary
- arrangements, which allowed cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR, to
- contact, on February 6, the House of Science and Technology for
- Youth, in Moscow.
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- The contact was retransmitted in Russia on HF and VHF, according to
- the ARRL SAREX Working Group.
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- After the Russian Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the US
- State Department approved the arrangements, it still was necessary
- to obtain a Special Temporary Authorization from the FCC. The ARRL
- contacted the FCC's Personal Radio Branch, and the STA was granted
- on February 4.
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- Permanent reciprocal operating and third party agreements between
- the US and Russia have been in negotiations for several years.
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- In addition to schools contacted, the shuttle's robot packet station
- had logged nearly 2000 contacts as of February 7.
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- US astronauts aboard the shuttle include Charles Bolden, KE4IQB, and
- Ronald Sega, KC5ETH.
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