ARLA/CLUSTER: 6 Radioamadores a bordo da ISS

[João Gonçalves Costa]

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Six radio hams fly to space station

Six of the seven astronauts on the shuttle Discovery are licensed radio amateurs and will join four radio hams already on the International Space Station (ISS).

Space shuttle Discovery and the STS-131 crew launched at 6:21 a.m. Monday from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and expected to dock with the International Space Station on Tuesday.

The shuttle Discovery (STS131) crew consists of:
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, KE5DAT
Stephanie Wilson, KD5DZE
Naoko Yamazaki, KE5DAS
James P. Dutton, Jr., KE5HOE,
Rick Mastracchio, KC5ZTE,
Clayton Anderson, KD5PLA
Alan Poindexter

Already onboard the ISS are radio hams Tracy Caldwell Dyson, KF5DBF, Timothy J. Creamer, KC5WKI, Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP, Mikhail Kornienko, RN3BF along with Oleg Kotov and Alexander Skvortsov.

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/

ISS Fan Club
http://www.issfanclub.com/

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              Frequencies used by ISS:


voice

packet radio

Region

uplink
(MHz)

downlink
(MHz)

uplink
(MHz)

downlink
(MHz)

1 (Europe, Russia, Near East, Africa) (FM)

145.200

145.800

145.990

145.800

2 (Americas), 3 (Far East, Pacific) (FM)

144.490

145.800

145.990

145.800

U/V FM repeater (all regions)

437.800

145.800

-

-

Communication with ground control (FM)

-

143.625

-

-

Spacewalk communications (EVA)
(AM)

259.700
296.800
279.000

259.700
296.800
279.000

-

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