Hello all. I will be leaving on Wednesday for the 14 hour drive to FL to watch the shuttle launch from the NASA causeway. I was wondering if anyone had some updated repeater info for the area. I am looking for either a repeater or simplex frequency that I might be able to use to listen to the launch audio with on my HT during the launch. I read somewhere online about a repeater or repeaters that broadcast the audio live but I cannot find the site again.
Also any info on mission frequencies that are used would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
73,
I understand that there is a re-broadcast on the Echolink system Paul. Try that with a portable computer.
73, John de VK2XGJ It may be that your sole purpose in Life is to serve as a warning to others.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Lenharr II" kb3nds@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:47 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Space Shuttle Launch - Need some freqs.
Hello all. I will be leaving on Wednesday for the 14 hour drive to FL to watch the shuttle launch from the NASA causeway. I was wondering if anyone had some updated repeater info for the area. I am looking for either a repeater or simplex frequency that I might be able to use to listen to the launch audio with on my HT during the launch. I read somewhere online about a repeater or repeaters that broadcast the audio live but I cannot find the site again.
Also any info on mission frequencies that are used would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
73,
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On Jun 4, 2007, at 10:02 PM, John Simon wrote:
I understand that there is a re-broadcast on the Echolink system Paul. Try that with a portable computer.
And if you can find a willing IRLP node in the area, that won't melt down under continuous duty cycle (lots of people using radios for both types of system that really shouldn't be keyed down for hours on end with small breaks), I'm in the process of setting up Reflector 9870, Channel 7 (9877) again as "listen-only" for the Shuttle flight.
Another ham from California will be feeding NASA Select audio like the last few flights, with VOX and digital audio delay to remove pre- clipping, and levels set nicely. (He does a great job.)
Connect any IRLP node to it and you'll have all the "Shuttle audio" you care to listen to.
As a technical side-note, you'll want to set up a custom connect script in custom_decode on the IRLP node to connect without a timeout, if there's little activity on your local system, otherwise the usual timeouts will apply. Around here, we have nets on many weeknights, so depending on the in-flight "awake" schedule, I build crontab entries to bring up the audio, reconnect it during wake times if it gets disconnected (every 15 minutes or so) and disconnect it after the crew has gone to bed for the "night".
It sounds great, and if your local IRLP node builder took the time to make the link full-duplex to your repeater or better yet, directly into a repeater controller, you can program your controller to "talk over" the NASA audio, which is what we've been doing here in Denver on our club's VHF linked system for years). Be forewarned, if you connect during a busy time with a half-duplex control node, you'll be "stuck" transmitting it until either the NASA Select audio is silent for a few seconds (unkeying your link radio) or you log into the node via other methods and kill it off. There's a built in "drop" timer on the node feeding the audio to reset links and link radios every 3 minutes or so with a brief un-key.
Reflector 9877 is sponsored by both Rocky Mtn Ham Radio (www.rmham.org) and Mountaintop Associates of Colorado.
73 and Enjoy, all.
-- Nate Duehr, WY0X nate@natetech.com
NASA audio is usually rebroadcast in the Central Brevard area on the 146.94 repeater. There is also a launch net on 147.135 starting about 30 minutes prior to the opening of the window.
I'm usually on the 147.135 repeater whenever I'm in the car.
73, Lee-KU4OS
On Monday 04 June 2007 22:47:19 Paul Lenharr II wrote:
Hello all. I will be leaving on Wednesday for the 14 hour drive to FL to watch the shuttle launch from the NASA causeway. I was wondering if anyone had some updated repeater info for the area. I am looking for either a repeater or simplex frequency that I might be able to use to listen to the launch audio with on my HT during the launch. I read somewhere online about a repeater or repeaters that broadcast the audio live but I cannot find the site again.
Also any info on mission frequencies that are used would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
73,
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