Talk:Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
Man that's funny when I copied over the external links I had found for the ISS article, it totally overwhelms this little article, but it is all good, 'cause the reference section in the ISS is too big for people to find the external links as well. Penyulap talk 15:17, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- The demerits of one article do not justify the marring of another one. I've removed all external links not directly relevant to the actual topic. The "overwhelm" is now gone. Yakushima (talk) 04:57, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Incorrect date of the first radio contacts[edit]
In this section the year is completely incorrectly listed as 1983:
"On November 12, 1983 the first amateur radio contacts were made from the International Space Station during Expedition 1. Sometime between 06:30 and 10:10 UTC Sergei Krikalev (callsign U5MIR) contacted the ARISS team in Russia. At 10:55 UTC Kiralev and William Shepherd (callsign KF5GSL) operating as NA1SS contacted the amateur radio club at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. A few minutes later they would talk to the Johnson Space Center club, W5RRR. The team noted in the mission log, "Comm quality of the VHF circuit was excellent. Signal to noise and readability of the ham radio is better than our other comm circuits.""
1983 was before even the Mir space station had been launched, and way before the ISS even existed as parts.
Expedition 1 as linked in the text took place between 2000-10-31 and 2001-03-21, and during the expedition the events referenced here did take place, but it was in 2000, not 1983.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/expedition-1/
Since I am not a normal Wikipedia editor, I wanted to start by posting this talk topic before making any changed myself, I'd be happy for someone to fact check my claims and verify that what I found is accurate. 85.229.61.80 (talk) 05:09, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Since I have not heard any issues about this, I will update the article. 85.229.61.80 (talk) 21:05, 30 December 2023 (UTC)