Ham Talk Live! Episode 49 - Operating from the ISS and Explore/Create with Richard Garriott, W5KWQ

Thursday at 9 pm Eastern time, tune into Ham Talk Live! to hear Richard Garriott de Cayeux, W5KWQ talk about operating ham radio from the International Space Station and his new book, Explore/Create! We will take your calls, and even take a trip down memory lane with some discussion about his father, Owen Garriott, W5LFL, the first person to operate ham radio from space.

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thank to the info..... Owen Garriott, W5LFL, the first person to operate ham radio from space ..... the SPACE HAM PIONEER !

and i see the video when Richard Garriott the son W5KWQ when on ISS space station contact his father on earth... great !


73 de IW2BSF Rudy

 

I worked Richard in 2008 when he was NA1SS in the Space Station. I am incredibly grateful for him to take the time for the many contacts he made. I remember seeing him in a lawn chair in Kazakhstan on CNN a day later. That's traveling! Thanks Richard!!
-Chris VA3ECO

 

wonder if there's a ham up there now

 

I am sure there is astronauts are required to have a ham ticket last time I heard.

 

next long pass by my area I guess I'll try with my tape measure yagi.

 

And let's not forget:

One of our smartest Senators (and a big fan of stealth antennas) was an Astronaut.

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was 31 yrs ago today, on January 28, 1986 - RIP.

 

I recently followed @rs0iss on Twitter. They Tweet whenever an Astronaut/Cosmonaut is on the air.

Lately I have been getting a lot of 'Packet' notifications... could be promising for other modes.

I cannot get on packet from the back yard. The ISS can use 'phone' and 'SSTV', too.

Probably a little tricky to scan the sky, phase the Yagi, run split mode and type.

Looking forward to some satellite work this spring/summer on 'phone' mode.

Website: issfanclub.com

73,

John K2JBC

 

had for me to forget as I was watching as it blew up on live TV... and one of the astronauts was a 1st cousin to a teachers aide in my Elementary school.

 

Sad day indeed. I was in high school, and they turned the broadcast radio on over the PA system. They said that the chances of it happening were 1 in 50 at the time. Not great odds.

I'm glad Richard was able to go and pioneer SSTV from space, and hopefully AMSAT can raise the rest of the money to replace the radio up there so we can all get back to reliable communications on 2m. If you want to donate, go to AMSAT.org, and click on the donate to ISS button.

 

I'll never forget it. Christa McAuliffe – a teacher, was a member of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger who died on the mission and there were children from her school in the audience, pointing at the explosion in real time on TV. They didn't understand what they were seeing. Her parents were also in the viewing stands along with other teachers from her school. It's all on Youtube under "Shuttle Challenger Disaster" and on February 1, 2003, we experienced the "Shuttle Columbia Disaster" which also involved a tragic loss of life. Today, we tend to think of these missions as "routine" but these Astronauts (all of them) are actually heroic pioneers, risking their lives for the advancement of science.

R.I.P.

Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were in the Apollo 1 capsule for plugs-out test on January 27, 1967 when a short circuit ignited flammable materials in the pressurized pure-oxygen atmosphere. The astronauts died of carbon monoxide poisoning before ground crews could reach them.

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on mission STS-51-L due to a defect in one of the solid rocket boosters. All seven crew members—Francis "Dick" Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, and Christa McAuliffe—died. Scobee, McNair, Resnik and Onizuka had flown before. McAuliffe was participating via the Teacher in Space Project.

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry at the end of mission STS-107 due to damage during ascent. The crew was Rick Husband, William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon. Husband, Chawla and Anderson were veterans. Ramon was a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.