NASA Photo ID: S90-32048           File Name: 10063893.jpg
  Film Type: 120mm                   Date Taken: 03/16/90
  Title: STS-35 Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) equipment held by R. Parise
  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).          
  
  Subject terms:
  ANTENNAS                                
  COLUMBIA (ORBITER)                      
  CREWS                                   
  PAYLOAD SPECIALISTS                     
  RADIO COMMUNICATION                     
  RADIO EQUIPMENT                         
  SHORT WAVE RADIO TRANSMISSION           
  SPACE FLIGHT TRAINING                   
  STS-35                                  
  

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