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The ARRL reported that Kenwood's software manager presented the two radios to Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, at the ARISS-International meeting held in Montreal in late June. The radios have undergone more than a year of NASA qualification testing. One will replace equipment that has been in use on the station for years, while the other will remain on Earth as a backup and for crew training.