15 Jun
2007
15 Jun
'07
11:40 a.m.
andy thomas expunged (andythomasmail@yahoo.co.uk):
The shuttle uses (allegedly) 259.7 AM over the UK as she boosts into orbit but I didn't hear her last time despite sitting in the garden at 1 am local time (not very cold and not raining, just feeling silly).
I (and another local) heard a brief transmission on 259.7 during launch over the Northeast US. I was chatting with some folks in England who heard a few transmissions shortly after I did.
There was a gentleman in italy who heard quite a bit of traffic, so it does get some use on initial launch.
-Steve N1JFU