[jamsat-news:473] ANS-005 Weekly Bulletins

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SB SAT @ AMSAT  $ANS-005.01
MIR FREQUENCY CHANGE

HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 005.01 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 05, 1997
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-005.01

John Blaha, KC5TZQ,  made an announcement that, as of 
January first 1997, the 2-meter voice and packet frequencies would change
from 145.800 Mhz uplink and 145.200 Mhz downlink to 145.800 Mhz
downlink and 145.200 Mhz uplink for groundstations  John 
was switching between the two frequencies as he was trying to work 
stations and inform anyone listening of the change to the frequencies
used to  uplink and downlink to MIR.
Below are the frequencies a groundstation would use to communicate
to the MIR space station.
FM voice ops:
        uplink  145.200 Mhz transmit
        downlink  145.800 Mhz receive

Packet ops:
        uplink  145.200 Mhz transmit
        downlink  145.800 Mhz receive

[ANS thanks John Blaha, KC5TZQ, for this information.]