[sarex] Prime Minister speaking via ARISS to ISS

[Tony, VK5ZAI]

The Chatham School in Taree NSW. Australia expects to be speaking with 
astronaut and ham, Mike Fincke,  KE5AIT on Wed,25.Feb at 07:31 UTC. The 
link-up will be telebridged via K6DUE at GSFC.
Craig, VK4SSB, will be coordinating the event which will take place at 
the studios of Radio 2RE. It's expected that the 38 radio stations 
belonging to the Super Radio Network  will cover the event the following 
day.

The New Zealand Prime Minister, The Hon.John Key is also expected to be 
on line and  pass on his greetings to Mike from the Asia/Pacific region 
and to ask the first question.

The linkup will be fed live to the AMSAT Conference server on Echolink 
and also on node 9010 via IRLP.

Those in the Washington DC area should be able to hear the down-link 
direct on 145.800 MHz.


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Regards Tony.  VK5ZAI

J.A.(Tony)Hutchison
P.O.Box 470 Kingston SE 
South Australia  5275

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