MIRNEWS.186 14 SEPTEMBER 1993 SPACE-WALKS (EVA-S): Some weeks ago TsUP announced that the 3 EVA-s, which had been planned for Sept. this year had been put back and that this crew (the 14th main expedition to MIR) would not make any EVA-s at all. Later on there happened to be a plan to execute an EVA on 10.09.93. This EVA has been put back also. Meanwhile it was obvious that 1 or more EVA-s are badly needed for the inspection of the outer surface of the whole complex. Experts even considered the use of the SPK (MMU) for EVA-s. Board- engineer Serebrov knows how to fly with the SPK: he was the first cosmonaut to fly with it on 1.02.90. Radiotraffic during recent passes revealed that the crew is preparing an EVA. Whether they will use the SPK or not is not clear. CONSEQUENCES OF THE PERSEID METEORITE STREAM ON 12.08.93: After a long period of silence the Russians officially admitted that the station suffered from hits caused by minis- cule particles during the Perseid-meteorite stream. One hit even caused a hole in a solarbattery with the diameter of appr. 6 cm. Meanwhile messages and questions about the damages reached the MIR crew by amateur radio. Experts are evaluating the eventual influence of the damages on the powersupply of the complex. The crew cannot see the whole outersurface of the station from inside and so EVA-s must be carried out to inspect it thoroughly. RADIO-AMATEURTRAFFIC: For some weeks again a lot of Packetradio tfc on 145.550 mc. Sometimes there are also calls by 'phone' on that frequ- ency. On 12 and 13.09.93 the crew used 145.500 mc to contact the Irish amateur EI3SI by speech. Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.