[amsat-bb] Re: ISS crew ham contacts?

[Joe Fitzgerald]

Nate Duehr wrote:

> It seems that during SAREX, more crews were active.  ISS crews seem  
> either a lot busier (less personal time for ham radio?) or are  
> generally a lot less interested -- 

I had a chance to speak with our hometown astronaut Suni Williams 
recently, and she indicated that access to other forms of communication, 
specifically e-mail and VoIP phones, have become available to the 
astronauts making radio less interesting to those astronauts not already 
bitten by the ham bug.

-Joe KM1P