Radio amateur communication: 35 years in an orbit!

35 years ago, in November, 1988, from a board of an orbital complex the World for the first time in radio amateur air call signs of the Soviet astronauts began to sound – the flight engineer of the 3rd main expedition Musa Khiramanovich Manarov carried out the first radio communication with radio fans on Earth. The tradition of communication with radio fans was from all over the world carried on and on Mezhdunarodnaya kosmicheskaya stantsiya. Operation of radio amateur means of communication onboard demands special preparation. Theoretical and practical training passes in the Center of training of astronauts at the specialized stand created on the basis of industrial coherent and...