MIR Status:

The Russian Space Station is still on schedule for a new Mir crew

consists of 

Cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri.  The tentative launch date

is on March 31.  A new cargo module has docked with Mir, to help get Mir

ready for the next Crew in April.



For those following Mir there is some very interesting News  reported by

MSNBC now running on their Web page at:



                 http://www.msnbc.com/news/317270.asp



Mir Amateur Radio Status:

I had a conversation with week with the engineers responsible for

training the 

Mir crew on the Amateur Radio equipment for Mir.  The Kaleri and

Zalentin were 

scheduled to be retrained on the Mir Amateur Radio equipment on February

28.  I was asked to provide suggestions for the Amateur Radio training.  I

suggested the crew needs to be familiar with sending and receiving packet

messages and with the SSTV operations.  In June 1998 I trained Alexander

Kaleri in SSTV operations at Russian Mission control.  Kaleri is already a

very experienced Amateur Radio operator. I also explained the crew needs

to be familiar with School Schedule operations because the MAREX-NA team

is planning on running a few school schedule with Mir this year. If all

goes as planned the Mir Amateur Radio station may be reactivated in April

2000 on 145.985 FM Simplex (Voice, Packet and SSTV).





SSTV:

In a few months the Mir Space Station may be activating the amateur

radio projects, 

including the MAREX-NA SSTV project.  

The International Space Station (Alpha) may also be installing a new

MAREX-NA SSTV 

called SpaceCam1 system as early as Q4 2000.  

Now is the time to start getting your satellite station  ready to

transmit and 

receive Slow Scan Television signals.



I have provided a few web links, which can help you, get your satellite

station ready to receive SSTV images.



Suggested Receiving Station for Satellite SSTV Images.

http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/MirSSTVStation.htm



MAREX-NA home page

http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/index.htm



SSTV Repeaters:

The MAREX-NA team has posted some information regarding testing of the new

SpaceCam1 SSTV software.

http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/RepeaterOperations.htm





Mir QSL Update:

The card proofs have been sent to Energia/MAREX-RU for final approval. A

minor typographical error was found  on the draft card by the Energia team

and we are working on the correction. We hope to send the final card to

the printers in March 2000. Note:  We are currently out of QSL cards for

the Mir Amateur Radio program.  The MAREX-NA team has designed a new Mir

QSL card which is currently in the hands of the printer. I  would like to

thank you all for being patient on getting your QSL cards.  We hope to

begin shipping the new cards in Q1 2000. The cards we are making are just

for the Mir crew QSL cards, we are not associated with any of the special

event QSL cards such as Sputnik.



The MAREX-NA web page has moved to a new location.

We will try to keep the page updated with the latest Mir and ISS

amateur radio experiments.



http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex



Copyright 2000 Miles Mann, All Rights Reserved.  This document may be

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profit including, but not limited to, CD ROMs, books, and/or other

commercial outlets without prior written consent from the author. Images

received from the MAREX-NA SSTV system on the Russian Space Station Mir

are considered public domain and may be freely distributed, without prior

permission.



DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F

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