Hey, Jim:
  Me, yet *again*!
  By bizarre and utterly serendipitous coincidence, I was tuning 
around in the 20 Meter shortwave band this afternoon (Sunday), 
which is something I *very* rarely do (thanks to the notorious 
nonsense found around 14313 Khz) and stumbled across the AMSAT Radio 
Amateur Net!
  They talk about various satellite issues, 
including VHF uplink and downlink freqs, and the current Mir mission 
(and, I'm sure will cover Shuttle missions too, when a Shuttle is in 
orbit).  They did clarify one item touched upon in previous posts, 
namely that 145.2 Mhz is the downlink freq that amateur monitors can 
hear, while 145.8 Mhz is the uplink freq via which amateurs may 
transmit to the spacecraft.
  In general, here's their broadcast schedule.  Note that there is 
more than one broadcast for each net.  I found (no big surprise) 
that the broadcast aimed at my part of the US was *much* louder and 
clearer, though the other signal was still audible, even with a 
humble SW receiver.
 Sundays, "on or about" 14282 Khz (14.282 Mhz) [20 Meters]
 1800 UTC (1300 EST, 1000 PST): "pre-net warmup" (informal chat)
 1900 UTC (1400 EST, 1100 PST): news/bulletins, antenna aimed at Eastern US
 1930 UTC (1430 EST, 1130 PST): news/bulletins, antenna aimed at Western US
 Tuesday evenings on 3840 Khz (3.840 Mhz) [75 meters]
 (3 separate broadcasts, to 3 regions of US, as follows)
 2100 EST to Eastern US
 2100 CST to Central US
 2000 PST to Western US
  Seems they meet every Sunday and Tuesday (though their schedule 
will be abbreviated during the next couple weeks of Christmas 
Holidays; the 20 Meter Net will meet as usual on Sundays, but the 75 
Meter Net on Tuesdays will not be held on Dec 24th and 31st, since 
that's Christmas Eve and New Years Eve [however, AMSAT Net regulars 
were invited to informally chat during that Tuesday timeframe]).
  Well, that's all for now.  Hang in there, and talk to you whenever.
Cheers, Frank
... I am Elmer Fudd of Borg.  You will be assimiwated.  Hahahahahahaha.
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