Saturday, February 09, 2008

STS-122 Launch Frequency Summary



Here is a summary of the frequencies monitored along the Space Coast on Wednesday and Thursday for the launch of STS-122.

Legend
AFB = Air Force Base
AFS = Air Force Station
A-G = Air-to-Ground
AR = Aerial Refueling
CCAFS = Cape Canaveral AFS
DOD = Department of Defense
FOA = Forward Observer Air
KSC = Kennedy Space Center
OPS = Operations
SAR = Search and Rescue
STA = Shuttle Training Aircraft

46.650 CCAFS
118.625 CCAFS Tower
133.800 CCAFS CAPE CONTROL (ID'd as JOLLY Button-12)
138.150 CCAFS CAPE RECEIVERS
138.450 CCAFS DOD CAPE
141.300 CCAFS VARIETY
143.150 CCAFS Tower
148.650 CCAFS Data/Telemetry (FM)
149.500 CCAFS
239.050 CCAFS Tower
264.800 CCAFS CAPE CONTROL
270.000 CCAFS Projects
282.800 CCAFS SAR / DOD CAPE
294.600 CCAFS VARIETY
349.600 CCAFS DOD CAPE / FOA (FORWARD OBSERVER AIR)
416.500 CCAFS Range Destruct (WFM)

121.750 KSC NASA Ground
126.650 KSC Weather / STA
128.550 KSC NASA Tower
235.400 KSC NASA air-air
259.700 KSC Shuttle A-G 1
284.000 KSC NASA Tower
409.925 KSC Weather telemetry repeater
411.450 KSC Direct 7 (pl 123.0)
413.050 KSC Weather remote input

133.750 Patrick AFB Tower
150.350 Patrick AFB KING OPS (FM)
251.900 Patrick AFB SAR
253.600 Patrick AFB JOLLY - KING AR
255.500 Patrick AFB RESCUE OPS
269.375 Patrick AFB Tower
321.000 Patrick AFB KING OPS

152.345 Spaceport USA Security repeater (pl 167.9)
152.405 Spaceport USA Maintenance repeater (pl 167.9)
152.450 Spaceport USA Simplex (pl 167.9)
154.515 Spaceport USA Tour Buses (pl 167.9)

156.600 Port Operations / Pilot Ch-12
156.800 Calling / Distress Ch-16
157.075 Range Control Ch-81A
157.100 Marine Safety Ch-22A
157.150 Station Port Canaveral Ch-23A
157.175 CG Aux Ch-83

118.900 Spacecoast Regional Tower
146.940 NASA TV audio re-broadcast
252.000 NORAD
269.300 Miami Center

259.700 Shuttle A-G (Ascent Phase)
2217.5 MHz S-band downlink (courtesy of Paul J. Marsh and Hearsat-L)

Paul posted a FFT doppler plot of this recpetion online online at http://pjm.dyndns.org/sts122.jpg. Thanks for the report Paul.