SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-012.01
ISS Packet Mailbox Filling UP

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 012.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. JANUARY 12, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-012.01

Packet users are requested to not send e-mail messages to ISS crew: Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) International Chairman
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, requested that amateurs refrain from sending
e-mail to the ISS crew via the onboard RS0ISS Personal Message System
(PMS). "The crew is not answering the e-mail, and we really don't expect
them to." he said. "If things change, we'll let you know." Reports have
indicated that the ISS packet mailbox is filling up with unread messages,
many of them greetings to the crew or holiday greetings. The all-ham
Expedition 6 ISS crew consists of Crew Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP,
cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, RV3FB, and astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT.

[ANS thanks the ARRL's Newsline for the above information]

/EX


SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-012.02
New ISS Packet Manuals

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 012.02 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. JANUARY 12, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-012.02

Miles Mann, WF1F, reports that New Packet manuals were posted (English,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) to the MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio
Experiment, North American Division)
website:

In an effort to keep the world information on ISS Ham operations, I will
periodically update the ISS Packet Operations Manuals and then post the new
version on the web. A new set of manuals has been posted on the web as of
January 7, 2003.  The only real change in the manuals was the call sign of
the mail box on ISS, which was changed from RS0ISS to RS0ISS-1.

Special thanks to Claudio Irate IK1SLD and Jo“o CondeÁo, CT2HPM for
converting the English HTML version into great looking PDF manuals in 4
different languages.

The new manuals have moved to a new link under the MAREX web page.
Please update your book marks.

http://www.marex-na.org/fileshtml/howtouseiss.html

Need more languages:
It would be helpful to convert the ISS Packet Operations Manuals into a few
more languages.  If you have the expertise in this area, please contact
Miles at wf1f@amsat.org.  We are looking for translations into: Russian,
French and Japanese.

[ANS thanks Miles, WF1F, for the above information]

/EX