8 June arrived to ISS the new crew : the Expedition #65

Today, June 7 launch of the new crew to the iss the docking scheduled for 8 June at 16:08 Moscow time.

with the Soyuz MS-09


They will arrive on the ISS:

Serena Auñón-Chancellor astronaut NASA,

Alexander Gerst of the ESA (European Space Agency),

Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian agency Roscosmos


73 de IW2BSF - Rudy

 

Any of them hams? All of them hams?

 

"Serena Auñón-Chancellor is a licensed amateur radio operator with a call sign of KG5TMT" (See http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3925042 )
73s,
Bill

 

great Bill... the one of the new crew hat have the call ? but.... is a REAL ham-radio operator or ? 73

 

Astro-Alex from Germany has the call KF5ONO. 73's

 

We'll have to see if there's any activity on this list from the I.S.S. station!!!! https://www.amsat.org/status/

 

KF5ONO was quite active as DP0ISS doing school QSO's on his last mission. See YouTube for replays. It appears he and others have an ambitious school QSO schedule ahead,

http://motobayashi.net/8j-station/ariss.shtml

(Hmmm, I wonder if its really just a coincidence that Alexander goes up during the World Cup tournaments )




In English too,

 

they always have a "ham" on board, but not a real ham. Usually someone that passed tech test so they can do PR from orbit.

 

If they passed the test then they are a "REAL" amateur radio operator!