[FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Comms

[Rankin, Robert L.]

> Also, don't forget the communications / tracking ships that the ships that parked off of Sable Island.  During one pass as either Salyut 7 or Mir (don’t remember now which it was) came over the horizon, The first transmission from the astronaut was "Dosvedanya Yuri Gargarin".  Those were the good old days.

Ah yes, there used to be all sorts of Soviet military trawlers parked around the western hemisphere sporting RMxx callsigns on h.f.  I haven't checked in years but I wouldn't be surprised to find them still there.

Bob