Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!prls!gordon From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle communications Message-ID: <24713@prls.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 16:35:16 GMT References: <55.24D4A922@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> <17361@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 13 In article <17361@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn) writes: -> ->During powered flight about 6 to 7 minutes after launch, I heard three very ->brief air-to-ground transmissions on the standard Shuttle UHF AM Geeesh, you forgot to mention the frequancy :-) ->frequencies. They were clearly the Shuttle, since they began "Houston, ->Columbia..." The receiver was an Icom R-7000 fed by a broadband discone ->antenna up about 40 feet. -> {remainder deleted - gpv} ->Phil