[FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Comms

[Rankin, Robert L.]

The Russians had an uplink relay in Cuba to cover the western hemisphere and so used 143.625 virtually anywhere. After the fall of the Soviet Union they and NASA had a deal for communicating from each other's territories. I guess I've been assuming that agreement is still in force, since their ships are transporting our astronauts to ISS. The Russians I've heard on the freq. have been pretty wideband, so the audio seems raspy.  The content I've heard has been mostly series of numbers in Russian.

Bob, WoNXN

> "That's interesting. I used to hear occasional Russian on 143.625. I think
they used it for EVA in their space program. I somehow thought they were
still using it at ISS. I still have it in my scan."

Air to ground for over five decades. From http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/ :

"On 7 August 1961, TASS issued a communiqué about the continued flight of
Vostok-2 and repeated the radio frequencies used by the cosmonaut (20.006
MHz, 143.625 MHz), "

> Probably used several times a day, but, unless you're in Europe, not much
chance of hearing anything.

Kurt

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