Shuttle repair/space walk picked up on scanner

[spoonty]

Hey guys,this is my first post and I actually know nothing about this subject at all,but I would just like to let you know that whilst mucking around with my scanner last night (I am in Victoria Australia) just doing a random scan,i think i may have found something?<br />I happened to come across "Houston" talking to dave williams ,they where doing a repair on Endevour,I have nearly 3 hours of this on tape,i got all my cords together and plugged up to the stereo and pressed rec,pretty cool and im not even into it! Now all I want to know, is this stuff worth uploading for people to listen to or is it widely available and common? there is a lot of "bzzzzzzz" "bzzzzzzz" and talk of gyroscopes etc and crook modules,wiring etc and bolts that are "stuck", uploaded a few minutes worth for you guys to give an opinion of.<br /><br />http://www.freewebs.com/dickscrap/space1.wav<br /><br />thanks Rick

 

[henryhallam]

Which frequency did you find it on? Is there a list somewhere publicly available?

 

[earth_bound_misfit]

3hrs? Can't have been coming directly from the spacecraft then as it would only be overhead and receivable for a frw minutes max.<br />So where would this signal have come from? Spoonty, did you take note of the frequency? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>

 

[docm]

Might have picked up NASA TV on the surface RF feed to/from a cable provider or local TV station. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[earth_bound_misfit]

"to/from a cable provider or local TV station"<br /><br />Well it must be only to, as we, unfortutately, don't get a "from" feed from any loacal or cable TV station (ifaik) <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /><br /><br /><br />Just listening to the received audio by Spoonty now, it's definitely NASA TV. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>

 

[spoonty]

frequency was 439.375,I uploaded a few files to my server,if you are having trouble listening the files,try saving as,one file is about 14meg<br /><br />http://www.freewebs.com/dickscrap/space1.wav<br />http://www.freewebs.com/dickscrap/space3.wav

 

[dougbaker]

I use my scanner for all sort of listening but in the USA. Never tried to listen to the shuttle direct. Because it would only be overhead for a few minutes. I listen to NASA TV via online and DIRECT tv (satellite tv service)<br /><br /> <br />I did a bit of a goggle searching and found that frequency used by a few repeaters. I have no idea where you are at, but here is a link. <br /><www.wia.org.au/repeaters/Repeater%20Directory%20070723.pdf /><br /><br />Just open the pdf document and search for 439.375.<br />If you find the output frequency is in your area, then you were listening to a repeater that someone used to re-transmit NASA TV off of a satellite dish.<br />

 

[spoonty]

Well im near Frankston in Victoria Australia and it comes up as Berwick in the pdf search, now that would explain it as Berwick is only a 35 minute drive from here.<br />Thanks Dougbaker I think you may have cleared things up for me, I thought I had found something pretty special?, maybe not!

 

[rfoshaug]

Did you hear the PAO commentator ("this is mission control Houston...") on your scanner?<br /><br />If so, it was definitely the NASA TV broadcast you picked up.<br /><br />Check out www.nasa.gov/ntv where you can listen to the same thing AND get a picture at the same time. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff9900">----------------------------------</font></p><p><font color="#ff9900">My minds have many opinions</font></p> </div>

 

[spoonty]

That sounds like it! thank you

 

[rubicon]

I have been able to pick up ISS communications from time to time on 145.800.Back when Sunni Williams was onboard I heard her doing a Q&A session.Obviously I couldn't hear the questions but could hear her response.I was able to hear her for maybe 5 minutes at the most.It was pretty cool though.I turned on Nasa Tv at the time but they weren't carrying it live.<br /><br />Michael