"The Shamrock"
The Monthly Publication of the Midland Amateur Radio Club
Volume 17, Number 8
August 1999
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16:30 Seattle
16:34 Winnipeg
16:37 Cincinnati
16:39 Boston
16:41 St Johns
16:52 Casablanca
If the Mir crew has additional time, they may optionally talk during additional passes. During the time slots before and After the MAREX-NA Voice days, the Mir crew may be active on SSTV for Sending and Receiving SSTV images from Earth. Make sure your SSTV systems are Ready.
 Voice Contact Tips:
 1. Listen first before Transmitting.
2. Wait until the crew says CQ or QRZ We have been teaching the crew more Amateur Radio protocol and they are catching on, slowly.
3. When you hear CQ/QRZ, just say the last two letters of you calls sign, twice and that's all example: WF WF (don't say anything else, until you hear the crew say, something similar too. Station WF please continue?.
4. Keep your conversation short and speak very slowly. If you are fluent in French or Russian that's better, use the appropriate languages or English too.
5 When you are done, the crew will usually remember to say CQ/QRZ for the next station waiting. When the band is too crowded, Jean-Pierre usually says Break Break, which is his way of asking all stations to please stop transmitting.
6. If the crew is on voice, do not send any packet messages. The crew will sometimes leave the Kantronics KPC-9612 ON, while they are on voice. This is so they can read OLD mail while they are talking on voice.
7. Do not ask the crew about the QSL card procedures. The Mir crew does not keep a log of radio contacts. Just send a card to one of the two address below.
I would like to ask everyone to please be patient regarding Amateur Radio operations on Mir. The Amateur Radio portion of the Mir experiments are primarily OFF-Hours experiments. The Mir crews do have a very busy schedule and only have a very limited amount of FREE-Time to use the educational Amateur Radio experiments.
This is not good by.
This is, until we meet again. DOSVIDANIYA

World Coverage during the MAREX-NA Public Voice event: We tried to cover as much of the world a possible for the MAREX-NA Public Voice Event. It requires over 15 orbits just to cover 90% of the world from Mir. Because of the very heavy Mir crew work load it was just not possible to find orbits which covered the whole world. During this test were not able to formally schedule any passes over South America or most of the Asia Pacific rim. We hope that we can run additional schedules to cover the parts of the world we missed, next year. We only have a very limited crew access window and we can not run any radio schedule while the crew is sleeping (01:00 - 11:00 UTC). The Mir crew is usually very busy during many parts of the day. Sunday is usually the best day for crew schedules. During some of the passes over Russia, it is possible the Mir crew may have to shorten their planned public access times, because of pre-scheduled radio links with family members living on Earth. I hope that everyone understands that all of the published times are based on crew work load, and it is all ways possible the Mir crew may have to cancel. For more accurate pass times you should consult your own tracking program with updated Keps. MAREX-NA Public Voice QSL Update:

For the special MAREX-NA Public Voice days, please only use the address below for two-way and SWL cards.
QSL Information:
Please provide the following information with your QSL or SWL card.
Return Name and Address, country, ZIP
Date and time of your contact, In UTC format
Signal report (Best guess)
Radio Station and Antenna (optional)
All Mir contacts, including SWL, Two-way voice or Packet connections (R0MIR), and including the Sputnik Satellites
Envelopes should be well sealed and do not include cash. Send a SAE (Self Addressed Envelope ) and one or two IRC coupons (which can be purchased at major US post offices). Do not make any notes on the out side of the envelope with Amateur Radio Call signs visible.
Sergej Samburov
PO Box 73
Korolev-10 City
Moscow Area, 141070, Russia

Getting Older
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we would like to get old is when we're kids?
If you're less than ten years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. “How old are you?” “I’m four and a half.” You're never 36 and a half....you’re four and a half going on 5. You get into your teens; now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number. “How old are you?” “I'm gonna be 16.” You could be 12, but you're gonna be 16. Eventually.

Then the great day of your life; you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony You BECOME 21....Yes!!!!! Then you turn 30. What happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED; we had to throw him out. What's wrong? What changed? You BECOME 21; you TURN 30. Then you're PUSHING 40....stay over there.

You REACH 50. You BECOME 21; you TURN 30; You're PUSHING 40; you REACH 50; then you MAKE IT to 60. By then you've built up so much speed, you HIT 70. After that, it’s a day by day thing. You HIT Wednesday… You get into your 80’s; you HIT lunch, you HIT 4:30. My Grandmother won’t even buy green bananas. “Well, it’s an investment, you know, and maybe a bad one.

“And it doesn’t end there.... Into the 90’s, you start going backwards. “I was JUST 92. “Then a strange thing happens; if you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. “I’m 100 and a half.” HAPPY AGING!

—ARNS Bul., Jul. 99

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