Krikalev - Space Ironman

Bill Higgins wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Ed Kyle wrote:

Krikalev has now spent more than two years of his life
orbiting Earth.

"Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev Tuesday set a record
for the most days spent in space, clocking almost 748 days
over a 20-year career".

"http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050816/sc_nm/space_record_dc_2"

We should get everybody here to sign a card and send it up to him.

He does HAM contacts. I don't know how that works, though.

Here's the NASA writeup.

"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition11/krikalev_record.html"

"Fly on, Sergei".

More time off the planet than any other human.

- Ed Kyle

Ed Kyle wrote:
Bill Higgins wrote:
[...]
We should get everybody here to sign a card and send it up to him.

He does HAM contacts. I don't know how that works, though.


Knowing someone with a HAM radio of appropriate frequency range would
help. There's a page linked from one of the NASA ISS pages with more
information on the ISS HAM station.

IIRC, a 2M FM radio is required; uplink and downlink frequencies are a
bit split, and you have to compensate for doppler effects (generally by
picking the right part of the pass so that the delta-f is within normal
reciever capabilities).

A directional antenna helps, but I understand being 100 miles from
others tring to make contact is an even bigger help; a handheld
transceiver has worked in lonely parts of the Mojave Desert.

Or did you mean spacecraft communicator Ken Ham?

/dps

snidely wrote:

Or did you mean spacecraft communicator Ken Ham?

HAM radio.

No one really knows why they call it "HAM" radio,
but that is probably a topic that nother Usenet
group has already covered ad nauseum a few times
over the years.

Meanwhile, researchers are also scrambling to track
down the origin's of the "Ham" surname.

"http://www.familytreedna.com/public/yourprojectname/"

Will NASA let astronaut Ken Ham fly before this work
is done?

:-)

- Ed Kyle

On 18 Aug 2005 06:36:49 -0700, "Ed Kyle" wrote:


snidely wrote:

Or did you mean spacecraft communicator Ken Ham?

HAM radio.

No one really knows why they call it "HAM" radio,
but that is probably a topic that nother Usenet
group has already covered ad nauseum a few times
over the years.

Well, the ARRL explanation is probably about as good
as any-

http://www.arrl.org/whyham.html

Dale
KJ7SL

"Ed Kyle" wrote:

HAM radio.

It's not an acronym. It's just a word.

No one really knows why they call it "HAM" radio,...

Lots of people know why, Ed. It started as a derogatory term applied to
radio hobbyists by professional radiotelegraph operators; "ham" back
then used to be something like the term "luser" is today. It was a
shortening of "ham-fisted", and was supposed to imply that someone had
rather less than average skill with a telegraph key.

In much the same way "hacker" was adopted as a proud label by the
original perpetrators of hacks at MIT, those early radio hobbyists took
the term as their own.

Nowadays, it's often just explained as "ham = amateur" and left at that.

On 2005-08-18, Alan Anderson wrote:

HAM radio.

It's not an acronym. It's just a word.

No one really knows why they call it "HAM" radio,...

Lots of people know why, Ed. It started as a derogatory term applied to
radio hobbyists by professional radiotelegraph operators; "ham" back
then used to be something like the term "luser" is today. It was a
shortening of "ham-fisted", and was supposed to imply that someone had
rather less than average skill with a telegraph key.

Does this predate or postdate "ham acting"?

--
-Andrew Gray

Andrew Gray wrote:
Does this predate or postdate "ham acting"?

I think that Genesis makes it clear that "Ham acting" was developed
very early on...long nights on the Ark, you know. Or am I getting my
begats mixed up?

/dps

Andrew Gray wrote:

On 2005-08-18, Alan Anderson wrote:
... "ham" back
then used to be something like the term "luser" is today. It was a
shortening of "ham-fisted", and was supposed to imply that someone had
rather less than average skill with a telegraph key.

Does this predate or postdate "ham acting"?

According to the Word Detective, "ham" was used to refer to less than
stellar actors at least twenty years before it was applied to radio
amateurs.