winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter) (12/04/90)
I was just informed by the SAREX coordinator at ARRL that NASA plans
to show some video of Ron Parise's amateur radio activities this
Thursday evening.
Scheduled time for "Mid-deck activities: SAREX" is 6:04 p.m. PST
on Thursday, December 6th.
Early reports are that Ron successfully talked to his dad yesterday
via a direct contact, but there were problems this morning with the
more complicated linkup between a couple of U.S. schools and the shuttle
via a ground relay station in Brazil. Cross fingers that everything gets
straightened out in time for Tuesday's scheduled school contacts. (They're
going to try to reschedule the schools that missed out this morning.)
Also, more than 200 hams have made contact with the robot packet-radio
system. I watched at 2:20 a.m. local time this morning as our own
netperson Mike Chepponis, K3MC, became contact #116. Ron is in his
sleep period now but will be starting up the robot again this evening.
Patty
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