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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA Select coverage questions
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Date: 1 May 91 19:04:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.171044.27329@isc.rit.edu> isg7243@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>In article <1991Apr29.194149.6749@cci632.cci.com>, lmm@cci632.cci.com (Lance Michel) writes...
>> 
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>>There are a few NASA Select Coverage questions I just have to ask...
>>5.     Why is this DOD mission so public?  Usually it's blacked out.

So that shortwave listeners could follow the mission.  :}

I had fun listening to Discovery last night on 7.185MHz (LSB), at least
the retransmit on that frequency from Washington.

Most of the time was spent copying readings from various systems/
experiments/??, but my kids thought it was great.  (So did I.)




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