MIR

American astronaut David Wolf, KC5VPF, will be replaced by Andy Thomas,

KD5CHF, During the January STS-89 Mission. The PMS 2-meter radio station was

temporarily moved from the core module and installed in the Priroda Module. 

This move was performed to take advantage of the backup antenna. 

The crew also installed a new modem a few weeks ago. But due to the crews

heavy work load, all of the TNC parameters have not been properly 

configured. Mirex would like the stations monitoring the PMS to please

be patient while they make adjustments. The PMS is NOT fully operational at

this time.



During the recent space walk, the crew was planning on examining the

primary PMS antenna located on the Mir-core module, If time permits. 

The crew suspects there may be a loose coax cable to the primary

PMS antenna. If the antenna checks out fine, the crew will still leave the

PMS station connected to the backup antenna until the March time frame. 

This is because the crew will be very busy with many other experiments and 

will not have much time for a low priority experiment such as the PMS. 



The only limitation they have with the current backup antenna, is the

Diplexor filter which is required for the SAFEX and PMS to share the same

antenna. This would prevent any 70 cm experimentation from the Kenwood

TM-733.

[ANS thanks the MIREX team for this information]



SAFEX, MIR 70 cm Repeater (Uplink 435.750 MHz FM, Downlink 437.950 MHz

FM, subaudible tone 141.3 Hz)

During last weeks momentary Mir attitude control computer shut-down. The

Mir crew temporarily shutdown the Amateur Radio station for a few days.

The PMS system was turned back on, but it is not known when the crew plans

on turning on the SAFEX Repeater.



MIREX has created an Internet Web page containing information regarding Mir

and the various Amateur Radio experiments taking place from the space

station. The pages are still "under construction", but some good information

can be gathered from what has been put together. URLs include the

following:



http://www.ik1sld.org/mirex.htm OR

http://www.ik1sld.org/mirex



http://www.geocities.com/~ik1sld/mirex.htm OR

http://www.geocities.com/~ik1sld/mirex

[ANS thanks the MIREX team for this information]



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   - U.S. Senator John Glenn, the first american astronaut [1962] to get

     on in an next Space Shuttle mission abord !



   - 14 Jan. at 20:00 UTC Solovoyov [personal record with 14 EVA !] and

     american Wolf [4 months abord MIR] have tested with an spectrometer

     for 4 hours in the space the KVANT-2 Module... great EVA, hi!



   - Next 24 jan. attend the new MIR CREW #25 composed by:

     

     Mosabayev  call R03FT

     Budarin    call RV3FB

     Eyharts    French astronauts from CNES [abourd only 3 weeks]



     sorry error this crew is schedule on 1-2 february 1998 !!!



   - On 24 jan, docking with STS-89 Mission, abord Andy Thomas call

     KD5CHF ... next MIR crew composed from 3 OM !!!!!!



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