Hey, Jim:
 JL> Thanks so much for all the info!!
  Just remember me when you hit the Lotto, just like I said before...  :)   

  I've already posted pretty much everything I know.  Anything else avalable 
via AMSAT/etc can be found out by any interested satellite monitors via the 
sources I posted.  So, I probably won't have much more to offer on this 
thread.  However, I will post anything else I may hear from the astronauts on 
Mir and or/the Shuttle, if it seems like stuff not generally available very 
easily elsewhere, including any comments about their planned transmission 
schedules, or the time of day I've heard them to be active.  I'll also try to 
cross-post maybe the next one or two Mir status-reports (from the Short Wave 
Echo), since they're quite interesting and informative for the general VHF 
listeners found here on the ScanRadio Echo.  By then, any interested readers 
will be aware of that ongoing posting on the Short Wave Echo, so they can 
begin surfing that Echo themselves for the latest updates on the Shuttle & 
Mir.
  Lastly, re the Lotto deal, I'm open to either cash, check, money-order, 
cashier's check, coins, computer equipment, radios, whatever.  I'm a pretty 
easy guy to get along with... especially for an Italian.   :)   :)
  Happy listening and happy holidays, and talk to you whenever.
Cheers, Frank
... I am Bjorn of Borg.  Topspin forehands are futile.
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