SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS001<br />ARLS001 New Amateur Radio Antenna to be Installed During Spacewalk<p>ZCZC AS01<br />QST de W1AW<br />Space Bulletin 001 ARLS001<br /> >From ARRL Headquarters<br />Newington, CT January 10, 2002<br />To all radio amateurs<p>SB SPACE ARL ARLS001<br />ARLS001 New Amateur Radio Antenna to be Installed During Spacewalk<p>Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Board Chairman<br />Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, has announced that one of the four new ARISS<br />antennas could be installed as soon as next week. It's anticipated<br />that the ''WA3'' VHF-UHF flexible tape antenna will be installed on<br />one end of the ISS Service Module during a scheduled January 14<br />spacewalk--or EVA.<p>''The Russian team is able to deploy this particular antenna sooner<br />than the others because it is located very close to where the four<br />RF connections go into the Service Module,'' Bauer said.<p>Expedition Four Commander Yuri Onufrienko, RK3DUO, and flight<br />engineers Carl Walz, KC5TIE, and Dan Bursch, KD5PNU, are beginning<br />their second month in orbit aboard the ISS. They have not yet been<br />active on Amateur Radio, although several ARISS school contacts are<br />pending. Onufrienko and Walz will carry out the EVA. NASA says the<br />two will move a Russian cargo crane to the Russian Functional Cargo<br />Block for future assembly work. Bursch will operate the Canadarm2<br />robotic arm from inside the space station.''<p>Installation of the new antenna on the Service Module paves the way<br />for two separate ham stations aboard Space Station Alpha. Plans call<br />for a 2-meter station to remain in the Functional Cargo Block using<br />the Russian antennas that had been used to dock the FGB but now used<br />for ARISS. A second 70-cm station will be set up in the Service<br />Module using the new antenna.<br />NNNN<br />/EX