Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: shuttle landing path and speed
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.060828.2266@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16934@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 06:08:28 GMT

In article <16934@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) writes:
>Does anyone know the route the shuttle will take just prior to
>landing and its general approach speed?   This seems like a
>golden opportunity for those of us with shortwaves and would
>like to hear it - I'd think there would be a lot of communication...

Unfortunately, practically all shuttle communications use microwave
frequencies.  I don't think it has anything that emits in the shortwave
bands, in fact, although shuttle communications are sometimes rebroadcast
on ham frequencies by the JPL hams, if I haven't misremembered something.
-- 
1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu