[sarex] Mir sleep time

["Miles Mann" <Miles.Mann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Mir crew sleeps from aprox 19:00 UTC, until 04:00 UTC.
or aprox 7:00 am mir, until 10:00 pm Mir

another way to think of it is
Take the UTC time and add 3 hours to equial Mir time.

04:00 UTC plus 3, = 7:00 Mir time.


The clocks on Mir do not change for day light savings.
So moscow is UTC Plus 4
Mir is UTC plus 3.

The VK and contacts happend around 05:30 UTC, which is 08:30 or jsut
after breakfast.
So while the mir crew was  straped to the breakfast table, they turned
on the 
kenwood amateur radio (either the TM-V7 or TM-733).


Doug Rolfe wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Eric VK2KUR wrote ...
> 
> >I know of two people in Sydney who have spoken to MIR on voice, one of them
> >twice.
> >
> >George VK2WEL spoke to them yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) Sydney time and
> >again this afternoon (around 0530Z).
> >
> >Grant VK2TU also spoke to them this afternoon on the same pass.
> 
> That's fantasitic. I'm a trifle confused re the timing. My understanding
> was that the cosmonauts sleep period was 0100 to 1100 UTC (11am-9pm local
> for me). Has this changed? I'd better start listening to all the passes
> over my QTH.
> 
> It's great encouragement to know that they're on the air.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug Rolfe,
> Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
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