[Boringiss] News

[Tree N6TR]

First off - we have a couple of new members on the list.

Lynn Hurd - WB7UNU (all of us ham radio nerdy guys will have some
kind of secret code after their name.  When you get to know them
well, you can just call them by the letters after the number).

Ward Silver - N0AX (maybe someday, he will upgrade and get a 1 
instead of a zero in his call).  Ward lives on an island near
Tacoma.  He might not make it for the dry run, but is interested
in coming down and helping out during the big event.

Thought this would be of interest:

==>ALL-HAM CREW SETTLING IN ABOARD ISS; SCHOOL CONTACTS SCHEDULED

For the first time, there's an all-ham crew aboard the International Space
Station. The Expedition 4 crew of Commander Yuri Onufrienko, RK3DUO, and
flight engineers Dan Bursch, KD5PNU, and Carl Walz, KC5TIE, is settling into
the ISS quarters that will be its home for the next six months. Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station school contacts already are
tentatively set for January and February.

Expedition 3 crew members Commander Frank Culbertson, KD5OPQ, Mikhail Tyurin
and Vladimir Dezhurov returned to Earth December 17 under heavy security
aboard the shuttle Endeavour. Culbertson and his crewmates returned to a
planet that's still trying to comprehend and adjust to the changes wrought
by the September 11 terrorist attacks, which occurred while the crew was in
space. The Expedition 3 crew had been aboard the ISS since August. Operating
as NA1SS from aboard the ISS, Culbertson completed nearly two dozen
successful ARISS school and educational contacts.

Now it will be the Expedition 4 crew's turn. Penciled in on the ARISS
schedule for the new crew are contacts with St Clare School in Waveland,
Mississippi, during the week of January 7, and with Harrogate Ladies College
(GB2HC) in Harrogate, England, the following week. Depending on the crew's
work activities, an effort will be made to schedule one ARISS school or
educational contact during a typical week.