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From: karn@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: TV news mangling (flame!)
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Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 02:19:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 02:19:25 1983
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I wouldn't know about the audio being talked over on the networks.
I turned the TV volume down and listened instead to the un-talked-over
audio being retransmitted by the club amateur radio station at the
Goddard Space Flight Center.  Until the local stations pre-empted their
shocking steel animal trap exposes and vital football score reports to
bring us their extensive coverage of the landing (all 2 minutes of it)
this was the only way to follow Columbia's progress short of paying
$.35/minute to the phone company.

By the way, any of you out there who did listen to WA3NAN's
retransmissions should definitely send them a reception report.  It must
have gotten very lonely running the station 24 hours a day over the past
10 days, and the only reward a bunch of volunteers can get is the
satisfaction that their service was appreciated.  I would certainly like
to see it continue on future missions!

Phil