Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!glc From: glc@akgua.UUCP (G.L. Cleveland [Lindsay]) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: Space Operation Message-ID: <935@akgua.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 22:02:48 EDT Article-I.D.: akgua.935 Posted: Mon Aug 13 22:02:48 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 07:01:43 EDT References: <766@houxf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 38 Jim Boddie (KC2VQ) raised the question about Owen Garriott operating in space without an Extra-Class license. I thought I might see someone else respond, but nothing so far. So here is the quote from the "W5YI REPORT", July 15, 1983: Astronaut Dr. Owen Garriott, W5LFL, scheduled later this uear aboard the NASA "Spacelab 1" on the Space Suttle Columbia wrote the FCC on June 1, and 13. He explained the operation in technical detail and requested waivers of certain provisions of the Amateur-Satellite Service Rules to permit him to operate a ham radio station aboard Space Transport System flight 9. Garriott sought the approval on the basis that it "will advance the long tradition of achievement in the Amateur Radio Service." STS-9 is scheduled to take place between September 30 and October 8, 1983. Dr. Garriott is a licensed Advancded Class amateur radio operator and will be the first ham to operate from space. . . . In favorably ruling on the Garriott request, the FCC's Jim McKinney (Chief of the Private Radio Bureau) said that waivers were "in keeping with our statutory mandate to provide experimental uses of radio frequencies, and to encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest." The Temporary Waiver Order was signed by McKinney on June 27 and specifically acknowledged the pioneering nature of Dr. Garriott's venture. Hope this clears thinks up. 73, Lindsay W4IZI Lindsay Cleveland (...{ihnp4|mcnc|sdcsvax|clyde}!akgua!glc) AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga (404) 447-3909 ... Cornet 583-3909