#Ham radio logbook for sts missions registration
Registration will require a purchase of a $35 Admission.The make and model of your show vehicle must be 1996 or older. REGISTER BELOW to display your show car or motorcycle at the SUN ‘n FUN Car Show. If you wish to purchase tickets for additional guests coming with you, please take advantage of our BOGO Florida Resident Tickets – Purchase a Saturday admission ($45 Adult / $20 Youth each)… come back Sunday for FREE!įor more information on Event Activities, please visit our SUN 'n FUN Daily Schedule! (Car Show entry tickets not redeemable at main gate.) Participants will receive special arrival instructions by email after registration. Show vehicle MUST be present both days to redeem. Saturday participants will be provided a Saturday wristband on Saturday morning and Sunday participants will be provided wristbands on Sunday morning. Show car must be present for special discounted entry on both days. Brian’s name went up with it.T his registration will permit one show vehicle and 2 passengers entry to the Show Car area on Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18. An identical flight unit, with the same placard commemorating the donors who made it possible, was launched on Maon the CRS-20 mission by a Falcon-9 rocket, for rendezvous with the International Space Station a few days later. This photo is of the engineering model of the ARISS power supply. This tends to cost a lot of time and money, and ARDC was happy to help.
One might think a power supply is a simple, low-tech piece of equipment, but the performance, reliability and especially safety requirements that must be met by everything that goes into space with humans are anything but simple or low-tech. The primary item was the development of a custom DC-DC power supply to produce the 13.8V required by small amateur radio transceivers from the 120V DC and 28V DC available on the ISS. So when the ARISS project put out a call for donations to support the development of new amateur equipment to be launched to the ISS, ARDC agreed to help. And ARISS has made ham radio a central part of that. There aren’t many things that excite today’s kids as much as they excited us, but space flight seems to be one of them. As the ISS comes over the horizon, the astronauts’ voices come through the speaker, and a few lucky kids nervously ask their questions, one look at their faces reminds us of the sense of magic and awe that (some of us, at least) fondly remember from our own childhoods during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
Although the school or group has to apply months in advance and the local hams supporting them must do a lot of planning and practice, to the kids they are anything but mundane. When a member of the crew has the time, he/she can pick up the microphone and talk to whoever happens to be listening on the ground below.īut the most interesting (to us) uses of ham radio on the ISS are prearranged two-way voice contacts with groups of K-12 school students. Because the crew is so busy, it is usually in an automated packet (digital) mode. Ham radio on the ISS operates in several modes. Many astronauts and cosmonauts have gotten their ham licenses just so they can use it while in space. Ham radio has been a part of human spaceflight ever since, including on the International Space Station (ISS). Owen Garriott, W5LFL, used a modified 2-meter Motorola FM hand-held radio to contact hams all over the world. With the launch of STS-9 (the ninth Space Shuttle mission) in November 1983, ham radio went into space with astronauts for the first time. Sputnik 1 went up in 1957 Oscar-1 (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) was launched in 1961. Amateur radio has been in space almost since the beginning of the “space age”.