From ARRL Headquarters
       Newington, CT  April 20, 2004
       To all radio amateurs

       SB SPACE ARL ARLS006
       ARLS006 Three Radio Amateurs on their Way to the ISS

       Following a successful early-morning launch Monday, April 19 (UTC),
       three Amateur Radio operators are on their way to the International
       Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz vehicle. ISS Expedition 9
       crew members Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Mike Fincke, KE5AIT,
       accompanied by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers,
       PI9ISS, of the Netherlands took off into space from Baikonur
       Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is due to dock with the ISS just
       after 0500 UTC on Wednesday, April 21.

       Padalka and Fincke will relieve Expedition 8 crew members Mike
       Foale, KB5UAC, and Sasha Kaleri, U8MIR. During his nine days aboard
       the space outpost, Kuipers will conduct a couple of Amateur Radio on
       the International Space Station (ARISS) school group contacts and
       carry out scientific experiments under a commercial agreement
       between the ESA and Russia. He'll return to Earth April 29 with
       Foale and Kaleri aboard the Soyuz vehicle now attached to the ISS.
       Foale and Kaleri have been on the space station since last October.

       Padalka, 45, will serve as Expedition 9 commander and Soyuz
       commander, while Fincke, 36, will be the NASA ISS science officer
       and flight engineer. They have been training together as a space
       station crew for nearly two years. This marks Fincke's first space
       flight and Padalka's second. Padalka lived aboard the Russian Mir
       space station for 198 days in 1999.

       For more information about Amateur Radio on the ISS and SAREX,
       visit the ARISS Web site.

       

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       From ARRL Headquarters
       Newington, CT  October 26, 2000
       To all radio amateurs

       SB SPACE ARL ARLS014
       ARLS014 Coming soon: First ham operation from ISS

       Amateur Radio is poised to mark an historic milestone. Operation
       from Amateur Radio's first permanent foothold in space is expected
       to debut soon after the all-ham Expedition 1 crew arrives November 2
       aboard the International Space Station.

       The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station--or
       ARISS--initial station gear already is aboard the ISS awaiting the
       arrival of Expedition 1 Commander and US astronaut Bill Shepherd,
       KD5GSL, and Russian Cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR, and Yuri
       Gidzenko. The equipment includes VHF and UHF hand-held transceivers
       as well as a TNC for packet, a specially developed headset and
       signal adapter module plus power adapters and interconnecting
       cables.

       The Expedition 1 crew is set to blast off aboard a Russian Soyuz
       rocket October 31 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and
       will arrive aboard the ISS a couple of days later. Once on board,
       the crew will begin a four-month stay aboard the ISS--the first
       permanent occupancy of the international complex.

       Two US call signs have been issued for Amateur Radio operations as
       part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
       program. The FCC granted vanity call signs NA1SS and NN1SS to the
       International Space Station Amateur Radio Club on October 11. The
       NA1SS call sign will be used on board the ISS, while NN1SS will be
       for ground-based ISS communications from Goddard Space Flight Center
       in Maryland. A Russian call sign, RZ3DZR, and a German call sign,
       DL0ISS, also have been issued for use aboard the ISS.

       Still to be determined are the frequencies for ARISS and an
       operating schedule. A decision on both is expected soon, along with
       QSL information. The initial station gear will be installed
       temporarily in the Zarya Functional Cargo Block of the ISS and will
       permit operation only on 2 meters--FM voice and packet. The ARISS
       Team anticipates multiband, multimode operations with the crew and
       regularly scheduled school group contacts.

       For more information about Amateur Radio on the ISS and SAREX,
       visit the ARISS Web site.

       

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       From ARRL Headquarters
       Newington, CT  November 1, 2000
       To all radio amateurs

       UPDATE

       SB SPACE ARL ARLS015
       ARLS015 All-Ham Crew is ISS-Bound

       The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station--or
       ARISS--initial station gear already is aboard the space station. It
       will be installed temporarily in the Zarya Functional Cargo Block of
       the ISS and will permit operation on 2 meters--FM voice and packet.
       Tentative operating frequencies are: Worldwide downlink for voice
       and packet, 145.80 MHz: worldwide packet uplink, 145.99 MHz; Region
       1 (Europe) voice uplink: 145.20 MHz; Region 2 and 3 voice uplink,
       144.49 MHz.

       Crew members may use their personal call signs or one of the ''club
       station'' call signs issued for ISS use--NA1SS, RZ3DZR, or DL0ISS.

       For ARISS information and updates, visit the,
       ARISS Web site.