ARISS to the Max

Just about everyone who is not yet technically a senior citizen (age 65+) has grown up in the space age, yet the lure of space flight and appeal of talking with an astronaut in orbit never grows old. KB2JRP shares a story from this summer of a first-of-its-kind Amateur Radio on the International Space Station contact … connecting seven Challenger Centers simultaneously — through a ham in Australia — with Astronaut Bob Hines aboard the ISS.

n Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact is hard, yet deeply rewarding work — there’s no question about that. Connecting seven Challenger Centers across the U.S. with an amateur radio ground station in Australia —