on hand to listen to Commander Culbertson answer questions
ranging from what preparations they needed to make to become an
astronaut, to the commander's preference for gravity over
weightlessness.

The Western Albemarle High School in Crozet, Virginia, is scheduled
for a ham radio contact with ISS at approximately 13:03:00 UTC
on Wednesday 2001-09-19. This is a direct contact and so
those in range of the USA's mid-Atlantic coast are invited to listen in
to the downlink on 145.800 MHz.

The ISS packet station (normally) available for UI packets. The mailbox
and keyboard are currently disabled. Please see the packet section of
the ARISS web page before attempting to first work ISS on packet.

The ARISS-US team delivered a new packet module to NASA. This new
packet module is expected to correct several of the problems that have
been observed on the current ARISS packet system. Expedition-3
astronaut Frank Culbertson, KD5OPQ, is planning to make the
packet module change-out.

The ISS daily crew schedule (which gives an idea when crew members
have free time and may be available for Amateur Radio operations) can
be found at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/2001/may/index.html

U.S. callsign:                  NA1SS
Russian callsigns:          RS0ISS, RZ3DZR

The QSL routes for W/VE stations working NA1SS aboard the
International Space Station:

U.S. stations:                  Margie Bourgoin KB1DCO
                                        Attn: ARISS Expedition-1 (or 2) QSL
                                        ARRL, 225 Main Street
                                        Newington, Connecticut 06111

Canadian stations:              Radio Amateurs of Canada
                                        Attn: ARISS Expedition-1 (or 2) QSL
                                        720 Belfast Road, Suite 217
                                        Ottawa, Ontario K1G 0Z5

European stations:      AMSAT-France
        16, rue de la Vallee
        91360 Epinay sur Orge, France

A self-addressed, stamped envelope is required to get a QSL in return.
The ARISS international group has not yet finalized a QSL card design.
It will be a few months before cards become available. More information
about the project can be found on the ARISS web site at: