General shuttle and rocket monitoring questions

[egloskerry]

Since I live close, I attend every shuttle launch, and most rocket launches. I have a Pro-94 and was wanting to hear some audio. I can already pick up the HAM rebroadcast of NASA TV, but I was wanting to possibly pick up direct KSC to Orbiter comms. In the PDF that has been posted in a few threads, I see that 259.700 AM is the freq used for KSC to orbiter comms. Is this digital or analog, since my scanner can only pick up analog. I was going to buy the programming cable from RS to add those freqs, so I want to know if I'll even to able to hear them.

Also, I would like to at least pick up mission control for the rocket launches, but I am not sure what freqs I am looking for. From what I've been able to find, the CCAFS freqs are digital, so I don't have much hope there.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[rdale]

You cannot hear any comms between ground and shuttle in orbit, they use encrypted satellites to do that.

[WB2UZR]

You can hear a few snippets of audio on 259.700 during the shuttle ascent, that is about it. There are some postings here with some reports and I think audio files that folks have recorded.

[ka3jjz]

259.7 would be unlikely to hear on the 94, in any case. I don't think the scanner covers the UHF milair band. 73 Mike

[egloskerry]

rdale, I didn't mean while it's in orbit. I meant while it's still on the pad and KSC is talking to the astronauts.

ka3jjz, it doesn't stock, but that's why I was going to get the programming cable and use Win94 to add those freqs in.

[ka3jjz]

There is no such animal, AFAIK, as Win94 (please let folks know if there is!). I would highly doubt the 94 would have decent sensitivity in that range anyway. Nice try to think about it, though 73 Mike

[egloskerry]

I didn't realize that. That sucks that the Pro 94 doesn't get software like the other ones.