By Miles Mann WF1F, MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division)

MIR Status:
The Russian Space Station is currently manned by Cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri. Today the Mir crew activated the MAREX SSTV system for a few orbits. The tentative plan is to  randomly activate the SSTV system several times over the next few days.  It is suggested you keep your SSTV system running with Auto Save selected to capture the images. 
The Mir crew will be coming back to Earth on June 16, so this will be your last chance to see any live SSTV images until November 2000.  The Mir station will fly empty until a new crew moves in sometime around November 2000.

Mir Amateur Radio Status:
Intermittent Voice and SSTV on June 8, 145.985 FM Simplex (SSTV mode Robot 36).
We are very interested in getting copies of these Mir SSTV JPG images to post on our web pages.  If you received a good high quality image (with out much noise) then could you please send the image directly to MAREX-NA at wf1f@amsat.org

We will save all images and post the best images received each week on our Mir-shots web page. Please do not send images to large mailing lists such as SAREX or AMSAT because they would bog down the internet too much.  
I will post the best on the MAREX-NA web page http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/mirshots/

School Schedules:
MAREX-NA received fax from RSC Energia authorizing one  last school schedule with this Mir crew.  The Schedule will take place next week (crew work load permitting).  After the schedule, we will post a WEB address so that your school can visit the page and listen to a pre-recorded MAREX Mir  School schedule.

Suggested Receiving Station for Satellite SSTV Images.
http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex/MirSSTVStation.htm

MAREX-NA home page
http://www.siliconpixels.com/marex

Copyright 2000 Miles Mann, All Rights Reserved. This document may be freely distributed via the following means - Email (including
listservers), Usenet, and World-Wide-Web. It may not be reproduced for profit including, but not limited to, CD ROMs, books, and/or other commercial outlets without prior written consent from the author.
Images received from the MAREX-NA SSTV system on the Russian Space Station Mir are considered public domain and may be freely distributed, without prior permission.

DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F