Mediaguy500 wrote:

Could somebody recommend a cheap scanner that covers 600 MHz?

I'd like an auxilary radio in the shack to listen for the ISS beacons.


that's news to me. Since that's part of the regular UHF tv station
band.

I never knew that there were ISS beacons right in the regular UHF TV
band.

But then again, for a long time, I never knew that there were regular
two way land mobile communications right in the regular UHF tv band in
certain cities.

I think I'll look up ISS beacons now.

OK, Satscape lists two ISS beacons: one at 628 and one at 632 (MHz).

Good info here.
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/radioind/...rradio.htm#FGB

Hummm... They're putting out 3.5W on 130.167 during EVA?

That... [beep] could be... [beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep] REALLY cool [beep]. Now I just need to attach it to the good
antenna and a recorder when they might go EVA...

-Donald
--
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable
words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe