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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
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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