RE: [amsat-bb] Re: [sarex] ISS Call sign RZ3DZR

[Jean-Louis.RAULT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

As far as I know, 4U1ITU is a very active ham club station operating
from Strasbourg city, France, but has an "international" status.

Cheers

Jean-Louis F6AGR

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Arthur H Feller [mailto:w4art@AMSAT.Org]
> Date: mardi 21 mars 2000 15:37
> À: kk5do@AMSAT.Org; Bruce Bostwick; amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
> Objet: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: [sarex] ISS Call sign RZ3DZR
> 
> 
> Hi, Bruce,
> 
> At 08:30 AM 21-03-00 +00-06, Bruce Paige wrote:
> >if you had attended the iaru meeting at the san diego 
> symposium, you would
> >have heard the discussion on this. there is no precedent for 
> an international
> >callsign at this time.
> 
> Actually, there is.  And, the point was raised in San Diego.
> 
> Call sign series have been allocated for the UN (with which 
> the ITU is 
> affiliated), the World Meteorological Organization, and, I 
> think, one other 
> international organization which escapes memory just now.
> 
> We were thinking that administrations involved in the ISS 
> program could ask 
> the ITU Secretary General for a call sign series to be used for 
> multinational projects in space.  That way, the space station 
> would not 
> appear to be of a single nation, but, as a "community" project.
> 
> Perhaps, this was just wishful thinking.  But, I like the 
> spirit of the idea.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 73, art.....
> 
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