That makes sense.  I wonder if the ground crew could trick the ground 
receiver into un-muting the audio from the shuttle so that they can listen 
in on what's going on.

Jeff, KB1SPH / WQEX694


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From: "Martin Flynn" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:16 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: question for commercial radio shops

> Spacecraft systems are full-duplex.  The purpose of the "Quindar tones"
> was to mute the uplink audio when Houston had nothing to say.
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> ka9qjg wrote:
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>> Meant a lot to the First Astronauts  with Communications  that is how
>> it got started I think ,   I forget if it was a Pre or after Transmission
>>
>>   Don
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>>   KA9QJ
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