Re: QST Looking for Scouting Radio Amateurs
Alan Houser (troop24@EMF.NET)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:39:06 -0700
Jon Pearl W4ABC <w4abc@GTE.NET> wrote (in part):
>Did you know that this last Space Shuttle mission utilized Amateur Radio?
>Did you know that a very large contingent of NASA Astronauts are Hams?
>Did you know that a permanent Amateur Radio Module is about to be loaded
>onboard the International Space Station (ISS) for OUR communications with
>it?
One of the highlights of the last National Jamboree began at 3 in the
morning when my Scouts woke me up to accompany them in a 3-mile walk
across camp to the ham radio station. They arrived to be first in line
to talk with the American astronaut on the Mir Space Station. There was
also a group of Ukrainian Scouts who had the opportunity to converse
with him in Russian. We had only a ten-minute window, and we could
watch the station pass overhead as the Scouts were talking with it.
All but one of my Scouts who made the trek had a chance to talk with
the astronaut. He had traded his place in line for a patch, and was
holding the mike as Mir went out of range.
YiS,
Alan R. Houser ** troop24@emf.net
** Scoutmaster, Troop 24, Berkeley, California **
** Committee Member, Crew 24, Berkeley, California **
** Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner, Herms District **
** WWW page ** http://www.emf.net/~troop24/t24.html **
