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Subject: [surfpunk-0075] SAREX: STS-56 Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment

This just in.  Launch in a few hours.  Why the middle of the night?
It says bulletins on internet; i suppose i should know where.    strick
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SB SAREX@AMSAT $STS-56.001
STS-56 SAREX Mission

        STS-56 Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX)
                       Information Sheet



Mission:^?STS-56 Space Shuttle Discovery
               ATLAS-2 Spacelab Mission

Launch:         April 6, 1993, 5:32 UTC

Orbit:          57 degree inclination, 160 nautical miles

Amateur
Radio
Operators:      Ken Cameron, KB5AWP, Ken Cockrell, KB5UAH,
               Mike Foale, KB5UAC, Ellen Ochoa, KB5TZZ, and
               Steve Oswald, KB5YSR

Modes:^?^?FM Voice
               Prime callsign KB5AWP

               Packet Radio
               Callsign W5RRR-1

               2-way SSTV
               Callsign W5RRR/S

               ATV Uplink  (prescheduled)

Frequencies:    All operations in split mode.  Do not transmit on
               the downlink frequency.


Voice Freqs:    Downlink:       145.55 MHz  (Worldwide)
               Uplinks:        144.91, 144.93, 144.95, 144.97, 144.99
                               MHz (Except Europe)
                               144.70, 144.75, 144.80 MHz (Europe only)

               Note:  the crew will not favor any specific uplink
               frequency, so your ability to work the crew will
               be the "luck of the draw"

Packet Freqs:   Downlink:       145.55 MHz
               Uplink:         144.49 MHz

QSL Info:       Send you QSL or Listeners Report to:

               STS-56 QSL
               C/O Vienna Wireless Society
               P.O. Box 418
               Vienna, VA 22183

Include a self addressed stamped envelope.  Non-US stations should
include the appropriate number of IRCs with your QSL or a 0.50
U.S. stamp on the envelope.

Report should include callsign, whether worked/heard, date, UTC time,
mode, frequency, and QSO number for packet connects.

Info:           Goddard Amateur Radio Club, WA3NAN, Greenbelt, Maryland
               SAREX Bulletins and Shuttle Retransmissions
               3860 KHz, 7185 KHz, 14,295 KHz, 21,395 KHz, 28,650 KHz
               and 147.45  MHz (FM)

               Johnson Space Center ARC, W5RRR, Houston, Texas
               SAREX Bulletins
               7225 KHz, 14,280 KHz, 21,395 KHz,  28,650 KHz, (SSB)
               and 146.64 MHz (FM)


               ARRL Amateur Radio Station, W1AW, Newington, CT
               SAREX News Bulletins
               3990, 7290, 14,290, 18,160, 21,390, and 28,590 KHz
               and 147.555 MHz (FM)

               Also, bulletins available on internet, via AMSAT ANS,
               Compuserve, and your local PBSS.

School Group Participation:     18 school groups will participate
                               in SAREX with pre-scheduled direct
                               contacts.  These include 13 in the
                               U.S., 2  in England, and one in
                               Portugal, South Africa and Australia.

Prelaunch Keplerian Elements:

The following Keplerian Elements are provided by Gil Carman, WA5NOM
at the Johnson Space Center ARC:

The planned launch date for STS-56 has now been set for April 6,
05:32 UTC.

1 00056U          93 96.29075346  .00055200  00000-0  16200-3 0    56
2 00056  57.0020 177.4323 0011289 286.7156  73.2672 15.91759473    20

Satellite: STS-56
Catalog number: 00056
Epoch time:      93096.29075346   =    ( 6 APR 93   06:58:41.10 UTC)
Element set:     JSC-005
Inclination:       57.0020 deg
RA of node:       177.4323 deg          Space Shuttle Flight STS-56
Eccentricity:     .0011289              Prelaunch Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee:   286.7156 deg         Launch:   6 APR 93  05:32 UTC
Mean anomaly:      73.2672 deg
Mean motion:   15.91759473 rev/day              G. L. Carman
Decay rate:    5.52000e-04 rev/day*2      NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev:               2


/EX


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                       be going down from 06.00 to 08.00 tomorrow so
                       the SuraNet d00dz can test a new T1 link.

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