Spacewalks are easy to monitor. Your regular 2m antenna will work. In the UK we get some interference from Air band Communications but can generally get a good part of the conversation.
Note - It only works with the Russian spacesuits. American suits use a different system.
73 John G7HIA
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________________________________ From: Elan Portnoy elanportnoy@yahoo.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, 12 February, 2010 17:14:37 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Spacewalks
Hi,
I'm sure you don't mean "intercept" but monitor.
Have a look at this page http://www.orbitessera.com/html/space_shuttle.html
Has the frequencies listed--never tried to copy them myself.
Elan - WB2IOL
--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL vlfiscus@mcn.net wrote:
From: Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL vlfiscus@mcn.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Spacewalks To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 10:22 AM
I was thinking while watching last nights EVA on the ISS, has anyone here ever tried to intercept the space suit communications during EVA's? I'm not sure what the output of the transmitters are, but with a good system you still should be able to hear 100 - 200mw. Probably a weird digital transmission mode so you still wouldn't be able to tell was they were saying, but that's why there is NasaTV.
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