| Description: STS-35 Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment II (SAREX-II) window antenna is held by Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise outside the JSC Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) located in the Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9A. The antenna was built at no cost to the government by the Motorola Amateur Radio Club in Schaumburg, Illinois. SAREX was designed to conduct shortwave radio transmissions between ground amateur radio operators and a licensed onboard operator (in this case, Parise). Parise's call letters are WA4SIR. SAREX will communicate with amateur stations in Line-of-Site (LOS) of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, in one of four transmission modes: voice, Slow Scan Television (SSTV), data or (uplink only) Fast Scan Television (FSTV). SAREX is a jont effort of NASA and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) / Amateur Radio Satellite Corporation (AMSAT).
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| NASA Photo ID: S90-32048 |
Film Type: 120mm |
Date Taken: 03/16/90 |
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