Apollo comms

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> On July 22, 2019 at 12:10 AM Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>     To tacos at amrad.org
> 
>     "Fantastic. Aren't some of those frequencies now used for WIFI?"
> 
>     NASA uses 2.2 to 2.3 GHz
> 
>     Also, between astronauts all above 225 MHz
> 
>     222 to 225 MHz is the ham band.
> 
>     1970's hams had 2.3 to 2.4 GHz
> 
>     Taken away from hams, the middle for your car's nation wide broadcast band.
> 
>     Left for hams is the weak signal 2.3 to 2.1
>     Also all above 2.39 plus above 2.4 which is shared with WiFi.
> 
>     --------------
> 
>     This month, the AMRAD meeting speaker was from NASA Headquarters.
> 
>     His slides show a frequency used on the moon, was 256.7 MHz and a bunch around it.
> 
>     -------------
> 
>     Typical frequencies I used on the Sounding Rockets my team launched at
>     Wallops Island during the total eclipse of the sun were in the 230's.
> 
>     There I shook hands with Verner VonBrun, head of
>     Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
> 
> 

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