[amsat-bb] Re: STS-134

[Burns Fisher]

I will be there.  Got a pass from my senator.  My second launch!  (The first
was STS-1!)  And yeah, I was a bit unhappy to see that the President will be
there, mainly because of security and also taking up space in the best spots
:-)

Thanks for the repeater and net info too.

Burns, W2BFJ



On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Tom Williams <tdub20120 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> There's a good bunch of hams in the area that cover just about all of the
> Cape launches and rebroadcast the countdown nets on a local repeater.
>
> You can get the skinny at http://www.lisats.org/.
>
> I was able to view a shuttle launch a while back from next to the VAB, and
> had my little VX-3 tuned to their freq.  I was consistently up to date on
> holds, issues, and the like.
>
> 73s
>
> Tom Williams
> KJ4EAW
>
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Bobby Lacey <amsat at duaneallman.net> wrote:
>
> > I will be down at KSC to cover Endeavour's last launch from the press
> site
> > next week, and I was just wondering if any hams on the list would be
> making
> > the trip down to the cape? The white house announced yesterday that POTUS
> > will be attending this launch, so security may be interesting.
> >
> > I'll be tweeting and posting photos of RSS retraction + launch.
> >
> > http://www.twitter.com/kf4gta
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rllacey
> >
> > 73
> > Bobby
> > KF4GTA
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