SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-79.002
STS-79 SAREX Information Test Continues

Silver Spring, Maryland  USA
September 17, 1996 @ 1500 UTC

AMSAT's Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) volunteers developed
a new capability during STS-78 which is being tested again during the
on-going STS-79 SAREX mission.  Space shuttle rise and set times are
being made available via the World Wide Web for over 176 cities across
the United States, Canada and the rest of the world.  These rise and
set times are made available so that people can quickly determine when
the Shuttle will be above the horizon at their location.  This
information is available via URL:

http://www.datasync.com/~nz8c/sarex_passes.html

and will soon be available via a link from the SAREX home page:

http://www.nasa.gov/sarex/sarex_mainpage.html

The rise & set Web page is provided as a courtesy by AMSAT volunteer
Terry Jones, NZ8C.

Other official sources of SAREX information can be found on the
following Web pages:

http://www.arrl.org/sarex/
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/AmsatHome.html
http://garc.gsfc.nasa.gov/www/garc-home-page.html

Goddard Amateur Radio Club station WA3NAN retransmits space shuttle
air-to-ground NASCOM audio during this mission when two conditions
are met: (1) when the crew is awake and (2) when a WA3NAN volunteer
control operator is on duty.  The frequencies are 3.860, 7.185,
14.295, and 21.395 MHz SSB.  If you wish to check the up-to-the-
minute status of the GARC retransmission effort then you may point
your browser to URL:

http://garc.gsfc.nasa.gov/www/retransmission/retrans_status.html

The SAREX bulletins, including the rise/set lists by AMSAT Volunteer
Dan Schultz N8FGV, will continue to be made available for all on the
amateur packet radio network as well.

[Amateurs are encouraged to relay these SAREX messages to their
local packet BBS as long as the Bulletin IDentification (BID) is
preserved.  The BID is the character string starting with the
dollar sign ($), for example as in "SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-79.002"
without the quotation marks.]

Submitted by Pat Kilroy, WD8LAQ for Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO and the
SAREX Working Group.

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Engineer                           Fax:     301-286-1695
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