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LW2EIQ > SAREX 05.07.96 11:53l 37 Lines 1492 Bytes #-10883 (0) @ AMSAT
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Subj: Re: STS-78 Operating Procedures
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From: LW2EIQ@LW2EIQ.7600.BA.ARG.SA
To : SAREX@AMSAT
At 07:08 PM 7/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
>This morning, while listening for STS-78, I heard a male voice saying
>"This is W5RRR listening", then he'd say "Go ahead", and then back
>to "This is W5RRR listening", and sometimes "Say again". I never
>heard anything else, i.e., no other call signs given, no signal report,
>no indication of a contact, no nothing. Was I really hearing STS-78,
>or was it a slim. If it was STS-78, wouldn't normal operating procedure
>be to acknowledge the call of the caller and provide some sort of
>exchange to make the contact complete? I really don't believe it was
>a slim because the signal was clearly peaking (although not very
>much) in the direction I expected to find Columbia.
>
>73,
>Todd
>N9MWB
>
>
W5RRR is the JSC amateur radio club's call. Kent Castle, W5OJ is the trustee.
Might have heard one of the other astronauts on the radio getting a trial by
fire entry into HAM radio...
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