By Miles Mann WF1F, MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division)

Mir Amateur Radio Status:
No activity last week because of a heavy work load.  However the crew is just about caught up and we expect some activity soon.
Frequency 145.985 FM simplex

Back from Dayton:
Time flew too quickly, but the trip took for ever to get there.  I guess everyone had a horror story about Flying into Dayton.  I am sorry I did not have time to visit all of the booths.  The History of Mir Amateur Radio talk went well and ill try to get the slides posted to the MAREX web by the end of the month.  It was great to see a lot of old calls in person for the first times.  Miles

SSTV:
Over the next few weeks the Mir Space Station will be activating the amateur radio projects, including the MAREX-NA SSTV project.  The International Space Station (Alpha) may also be installing a new MAREX-NA SSTV called SpaceCam1 system as early as Q4 2000.  Now is the time to start getting your satellite station  ready to transmit and receive Slow Scan Television signals. I have provided a few web links, which can help you, get your satellite station ready to receive SSTV images.
The tentative SSTV/Packet Mir broadcast school is:
Saturday, Sunday and Monday SSTV. 145.985 FM Simplex
Tuesday - Friday  1200 baud AX.25 Packet 145.985 FM Simplex

Suggested Receiving Station for Satellite SSTV Images.
http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/MirSSTVStation.htm

MAREX-NA home page
http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex

SSTV Repeaters:
The MAREX-NA team has posted some information regarding testing of the new SpaceCam1 SSTV software.
http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/RepeaterOperations.htm

Mir QSL Update:
The card proofs have been approved by all departments and the order has been placed for 4000 Mir QSL cards. We hope to get the cards back from the printers in July 2000.

Note:  We are currently out of QSL cards for the Mir Amateur Radio program. 
I  would like to thank you all for being patient on getting your QSL cards.  We hope to begin shipping the new cards in August  2000.  The cards we are making are just for the Mir crew QSL cards, we are not associated with any of the special event QSL cards such as Sputnik.

wf1f@amsat.org

Copyright 2000 Miles Mann, All Rights Reserved.  This document may be freely distributed via the following means - Email (including listservers), Usenet, and World-Wide-Web.  It may not be reproduced for profit including, but not limited to, CD ROMs, books, and/or other commercial outlets without prior written consent from the author.
Images received from the MAREX-NA SSTV system on the Russian Space Station Mir are considered public domain and may be freely distributed, without prior permission.

DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F