Excuse the clumsy translation from Russian to English ... Hams at Baikonur will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin
08/04/2011 Celebration launch manned spacecraft "Vostok-1 caused a wide resonance in morse movement in many countries. In Roskosmos received numerous requests from the Russian and Kazakh radio to conduct expeditions to Baikonur Cosmodrome for a broadcast on amateur radio shortwave (HF) bands. >From 7 to April 14 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to organize an expedition of >Russian and Kazakh radio. In this period, the HF carrier rocket will be spoken Russian and Kazakh anniversary amateur radio call sign, devoted to the first human spaceflight: R50KEDR (Cedar); R50SK and UP50SK (Sergei Korolev), as well as R50YG and UP50YG (Yuri Gagarin). Work on the air will be from 5 jobs: - "Gagarin's Start" (site 1) callsign R50KEDR (Cedar) on April 12 from 9 hours 18 minutes Moscow time during the 108 minutes on the amateur bands 30 and 20 meters, radio frequency are close to the frequencies of the spaceship "Vostok-1" (9.019 and 20.006 MHz); - Test item number 1 (site 18) and callsigns R50SK R50YG from 7 to 14 April on the bands 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters; - Rf (site 5) and callsigns R50SK R50YG from 8 to 14 April on the bands 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters; - Test item number 5 (site 23) callsign UP50SK from 10 to 11 April on the bands 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters; - The city of Baikonur (pl. 10) callsign UP50YG from 8 to 11 April on the bands 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. April 9-10, Kazakh and Russian teams will take part in competitions in relation to the HF at "Cup of Yuri Gagarin. - Press Service of the Russian Space Agency _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
