[amsat-bb] Re: Fw: Re: Anousheh Ansari on Ham Radio

[Peter Guelzow]

Hi Kenneth, you are right...  her first contact with EP3RF was on
Saturday. It seems that the contact with students the next day may not
have happened.....    Anyway, she gets a lot of attention there...

73s Peter



Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] wrote:
>  A little more digging in her blog seems to indicate that she did have a
> contact with Iran.
> http://spaceblog.xprize.org/space-blog/amateur-radio-anousheh-ansari-spa
> ce-blog/ and scroll down to comment #8.
>
>
> Kenneth - N5VHO
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:41 AM
> To: Colin Knight
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Fw: Re: Anousheh Ansari on Ham Radio
>
> I believe she was calling for EP3RF.  They were planning for a contact
> on September 25th with some students attending the session.
> However, I have not seen any comments if this actually happened...
> Instead I've got a report through her Blog, that in Iran the band is
> associated to some governmental services and nobody else may listen or
> read anything on it. Instead, most amateur radio operators are using the
> old 27MHz (11m) band..   I don't know if this is true, but it may
> explain why the contact may have failed..
>
> 73s Peter
>
>
>
>
>
> Colin Knight wrote:
>   
>> She was active at 07:33 UTC over England trying for an Iranian
>>     
> callsign..she didn't use phonetics but it seemed to be EPT??RS. There
> seems to me a number missing in the sequence so I can't be sure if I got
> it correctly.
>   
>> After three tries she stopped and then appeared on the Moscow Mission
>>     
> Control frequency 143.625 and I just heard a few words from her before
> the pass window closed.
>   
>> Colin..SWL 50.58N 1.21W
>>
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>> Original sender's name:    Peter Guelzow 
>> Original sender's address: peter.guelzow at kourou.de
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> David,
>>>
>>> she was also active over Europe and looking for stations in Iran. 
>>>
>>> Listen here:  http://www.ticket-to-mars.org/ansari_via_rs0iss.wav
>>>
>>> 73s Peter
>>>     
>>>       
>>
>>
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