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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Shuttle Television Receiver Info Request
Message-ID: <355@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 07:43:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 07:43:55 1984
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Except in the special case where local ham groups rebroadcast
space transmissions such as Voyager images (in which case you
can get devices to convert the fast scan ham TV freqs to
normal broadcast VHF/UHF for your TV -- but they still cost lots
more than $14) there aren't any simple ways to receive "space flight"
transmissions.  The actual shuttle transmissions are all at
disgustingly high frequencies (e.g. S-band) and are not to
be received with cheap equipment.  More and more of these
transmissions are digitized in any case.  There is no generalized
"local rebroadcasting" of these images.  NASA often uses a 
satellite transponder to feed events to the media, but you will
see what they want you to see, not what's coming directly from the
shuttle.  Still, it's a lot more than any single media source will
ever show you, and it doesn't have the blabbing commentators.  You
need a regular satellite earth station to receive it, and the 
feed isn't always there -- only when something significant is
happening.  Probably not worth the effort to receive.

That business about generalized local retransmission and $14
converters is bull.

--Lauren--