More radio hams heading for space station

ESA astronaut Frank De Winne ON1DWN and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk VA3CSA along with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 10:34 UT Wednesday May 27.

Their Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 12:36 UT on Friday May 29.

The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft carrying three additional crew members to the International Space Station lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome

The arrival of De Winne, Romanenko and Thirsk at the ISS will mark the first ever six-member ISS crew, as they join the three Expedition crew members already in residence on the Station: Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka RN3DT, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt KD5MIJ and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA.

The Amateur Radio station on the ISS transmits on 145.800 MHz FM using Voice, Slow Scan TV and AX.25 packet. The signal can be easily received even on a small VHF FM handheld with a helical antenna.

Find out when the ISS is in range by using the N2YO Real-Time Tracking website at http://www.n2yo.com/

ESA - OasISS mission heading to ISS with ESA astronaut Frank De Winne
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMI761OWUF_index_0.html

Tips for working ISS on Voice:
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/issvoicetips.html

Free IZ8BLY Vox Recoder that enables you to record the ISS on 145.800 MHz while you're away at work
http://xoomer.alice.it/aporcino/VoxRecorder/

How to work SSTV on ISS
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtouseiss.html

Free Slow Scan TV Software MMSSTV
http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/

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

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