Wisconsin club lauded for shuttle re-transmissions

Wisconsin's Rib Mountain Repeater Association got some nice press last week related to the ARISS program. This, for its work in providing local space enthusiasts without Internet access a way to listen in to the astronauts in space using their scanner radios.

In a full page article in the Wausau Daily Herald, the club was given high marks for its work in bringing the complexities faced by astronauts into peoples' homes.

The article explained that the club picks up transmissions from NASA via satellite dishes at Northcentral Technical College, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and dishes in
members' backyards. It then replays the signals through transmitters over its repeater on 147.06 MHz on Rib Mountain.

The Rib Mountain Repeater Association broadcast both the live air-to- ground audio and television transmissions during the now concluded Space Shuttle Discovery's mission.

Source: ARNewsline

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