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SB SPACE @ ARRL $ARLS021
ARLS021 Another SAREX success
QST de W1AW
Space Bulletin 021 ARLS021
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT April 26, 1994
To all radio amateurs
Another SAREX success
During the just-completed shuttle mission, STS-59, astronauts Jay
Apt, N5QWL, and Linda Godwin, N5RAX, used their SAREX 2-meter
equipment for a contact with Astronaut Ken Cameron, R3/KB5AWP, on
assignment at the Russian space facility at Star City, near Moscow.
The two astronaut-hams also spoke to cosmonaut Anatoli Artsibartski,
U6MIR. The contacts were made on two successive passes overhead.
Jay Apt said "Ken is my friend and former STS-37 crewmate. It was
terrific to hear his voice after several months corresponding by
e-mail only. What a great way to use ham radio."
Cameron and Artsibartski were standing near the Star City statue of
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, using a hand held transceiver and
5/8 wavelength whip antenna, standing on a car to increase their
elevation, astronaut Jay Apt related in an Amateur Radio packet
message from space.
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