Launching soon . . . W5KWQ
Posted: September 30, 2008 9:01 pmFiled under: Linky, amateur radio, internet, space
Richard Garriott is scheduled to launch Oct.12, 2008.
You may have seen recent press or news bulletins about this, but if you are into ham radio - this is hot stuff. Richard Garriott is the son of SkyLab Astronaut Owen Garriott, who 25 years ago this month was the first to operate ham radio as W5LFL from an orbiting Space Shuttle. Richard has spent a lot of time & money to prepare for this flight, and has hopes of talking to school kids all around the world. He also plans to hook up with a few Boy Scouts during their ‘Jamboree on the Air’ (JOTA)… Another angle of this flight is to use a Kenwood SSTV (Slow-Scan TV) device to transmit still-frame pictures back to earth via ham radio. I’ll try to get back here with some links to follow-up, but in the mean time check my http://wb5rmg.somenet.net website for some more details.
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October 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
SSTV testing has started !!
The Soyuz launch was on time Oct 12, Richard Garriott is en route.
The SSTV equipment is connected and has been on 145.800.
Check http://www.amsat.com/ARISS_SSTV/ for some results…
This is looking good !!
BTW, there is an active Blog at http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/
to keep up with frequent updates with more detail.
/;^)