[sarex] ISS ON HF

[Roger Harrison <rogerh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This could be interesting!

From:  SpaceNews 16-Aug-99:

* ISS ON HF *
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Will Marchant, KC6ROL, reports that in addition to including VHF and UHF
capabilities, the Amateur Radio station on the International Space Station
(ISS) will also include HF radio equipment.  An HF antenna will be installed
on the outside of the ISS during a spacewalk on STS-101 in December, and
HF transceivers will be flown after 2000.
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Things will begin to happen on the down slope of the current solar cycle,
but that should prove interesting in itself and opportunities for
interesting propagation (and propagation studies) should INCREASE through
the solar cycle minimum (like some interesting experiments in the 80m 'DX
Window' and gray-line propagation) .

73, Roger VK2ZRH
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