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Monitoring ISS Air-to-Ground
Volunteers are always needed to keep an ear on the voice comm between ISS and Earth, while you're on line doing something else -- and then can flash a message to sci.space.station (and if you're willing, an email to me directly, to joberg at houston dot rr dot com) about anything newsworthy or curious. I can follow up, make some calls, and work through my NBC clients. You can get onto the streaming audio via http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/space/index.html and find/select the option to listen to the space station audio channel. There are a limited number of ports, so don't just leave it on and ignore it, please. But if you can help all of us keep getting real-time insight into what's going on in space, the value to everyone will be enhanced. Thanks! Jim O |
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JimO wrote:
Volunteers are always needed to keep an ear on the voice comm between ISS and Earth, So far this morning, the only "strange noises on ISS" I have heard is static. No DPC yet. Also, much of the juicy information is sent to the crews via the various "forms" such as form 24 and the daily tasks lists, at least on the USA side. The russian conversations seem a bit more candid, but for them, there is no sense of panic if they hear a noise. I think that the USA is acting somewhat like a backseat driver. They see/hear stuff, but they can't do anything because the russians are at the wheel, and the russians aren't panicking, while the USA is affraid it might be serious/catastrophic/dangerous (like any good backseat driver would). What should be asked of the russians is whether such sounds had been heard on MIR as well. |
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John Doe wrote:
So far this morning, the only "strange noises on ISS" I have heard is static. No DPC yet. Spoke too soon. DPC at 04:10 EDT. But could only hear ISS, not MCC Houston. So I only heard "Houston , Alpha, for the DPC" spoken by Foale. (The DPC is usually all ground to ISS audio). Many many many minutes later "Houston Alpha, Space to Ground 1". And no response. They must have privatized the ground audio and forgotten to deprivatize it. |
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By 04:40 EDT, ground finally came on, explaining to crew that they had had
comms problems on the ground. So even the Alpha crew had not received any message from houston. |
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