jhs%Mitre-Bedford@d3unix.UUCP (05/03/85)
------- Forwarded Message "I should also mention that 1) WA3NAN indicated that they were also transmitting on ~14n Mhz FM. I presume this is a repeater frequency which would not have a very great range, so I did not copy the frequency down. 2) If I did not say so before, the transmissions originate in Greenbelt Maryland, USA. Don't know how well they can be heard at other places in the world. I'm new to this DX stuff. 3) During Spacelab 1, I was at Edwards AFB for the landing, and found that the JPL Amateur club was transmitting the same stuff on repeater frequencies. Those of you on the near the Pacific may find that the same folks are also transmitting on other AM frequencies just as Goddard is. Worth a try if you can't get Goddard. - Burns" ------- End of Forwarded Message I happened to be in Clear Lake City (Houston Suburb where NASA - Johnson Space Flight Center is located) during the October, 1984 Shuttle mission. They were playing Shuttle audio over the NASA club repeater. I especially got a kick out of it because I had innocently turned on my HT on the way down from my hotel room to breakfast, just to monitor for ham activity. I thought nothing much of it when I heard a woman's voice discussing some technical things I didn't quite get the context of until a man's voice came on saying, "Sally, this is Houston. Could you move the arm so that..." -- and then it hit me what I was listening to! It must be fun to have access to that facility on a daily basis during Shuttle missions. You hear a lot of news in the making, and only a tiny fraction of the actual audio gets onto the TV newscasts. 73, John S., W3IKG