SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS032
ARLS032 Listen for Mir beacon
 
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Space Bulletin 032  ARLS032
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  October 3, 1994
To all radio amateurs
 
SB SPACE ARL ARLS032
ARLS032 Listen for Mir beacon
 
German astronaut Dr. Ulf Merbold will be active aboard the space
station MIR, signing DP3MIR, during the European Space Agency's
EUROMIR 94 mission, scheduled to begin October 3.
 
Dr Merbold will give ''information regarding the mission'' using a
digital voice memory designed and built by Thomas Kieselbach,
DL2MDE.  Kieselbach has arranged with Dr Merbold to load actual
spoken reports into the digital memory as frequently as time
permits, probably every two to three days, according to Norbert
Notthoff, DF5DP, the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club's Coordinator for
Satellites and Space Projects.
 
The reports in English and German will be retransmitted
automatically on 145.550 MHz FM.
 
Dr Merbold will stay aboard MIR for 30 days.
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