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Note: Please do not link directly to audio files. Due to high bandwidth transfers and increased cost, full-length clips of large audio files are available on CD-ROM with a website donation.

Files are in .wav format and can be played in media players that support the WAV format. Periods of silence have been removed from recordings to reduce length and file size. Recordings are from the Los Angeles, CA. area unless otherwise indicated. 

• Discovery Space Shuttle Mission STS-114
  (4min:02sec, 710K - added 12/01/06)
  One of my favorite scanning pastimes is monitoring space shuttle mission communications, especially after the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003. The featured audio clip is from Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 Mission back on July 26, 2005. The recording was made from the JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA) WR6KEL repeater broadcast on amateur radio frequency 147.1580. This repeater re-broadcasts the signal audio signal from NASA TV. 
  
  The audio clip starts after the shuttle has already landed. I got caught up in monitoring communications while watching the shuttle fly directly overhead during its pre-dawn landing at Edwards AFB here in Southern California and forgot to start the recorder - DOH! While the audio may sound boring to some, the exciting stuff is listening during a launch or landing. You can listen for yourself next week as Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch (STS-116) on December 7, 2006 at 9:35PM EST. The crew of STS-116 will deliver a third truss segment, a SPACEHAB module and other key components during the shuttle's 20th mission to the International Space Station. (See links below).
  
  Note: Note all scanners are capable of receiving NASA frequencies. NASA TV audio signal is re-broadcast in real-time over amateur radio bands across the U.S. See links below.
  
  Related Links:
  
  + NASA's Space Shuttle Main Page
  Complete information on the space shuttle program including the latest news, photo galleries, videos, vehicle structures and much more.
  
  + Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-116 - Launching Dec. 7, 2006  
  Complete information on upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-116 scheduled for a night time launch on Dec. 7, 2006.
  
  + Unofficial Space Shuttle Launch Guide
  This guide will show you how to get a launch or landing pass, and if you can't get one, where to view the shuttle for launch, re-entry or landing.
  
  + NASA's Human Space Flight (HSF) - Orbital Tracking Page
  Get "real time" space shuttle and space station tracking information including sighting opportunities. 
  
  + Monitoring NASA & Space Shuttle Communications (pdf document)
  A publication by Monitoring Times with detailed frequency information for both space shuttle missions and the International Space Station.  

• High-Speed Motorcycle Chase (audio links below)
  (added 02/23/07)
  As most of you already know, I live in Los Angeles County, CA, the verified "Pursuit Capitol of the World". We, or, us "Southern Californian's" experience on average 1-2 or more televised pursuits every week - and that's just televised pursuit. In reality, there are dozen's of pursuits that take place throughout LA County on any given night. 
  
  This month's audio clip features a high-speed motorcycle pursuit in Eastern LA County that started around 1:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning and lasted just over an hour reaching speeds over 105-mph on surface streets and freeways street - even coming within a block of my home. Due to the file size of the audio clip, I had to make two clips to narrow it down.   
  
  + Part 1 (3min:35sec, 632K)
  This part cover the portion where the chase comes near my home. As I listened to the chase and heard it getting close, I went outside and could hear the sirens and see the helicopter circling over the pursuit (see map - black circle indicates helicopter's outer pattern and red dot is my home). As the pursuit turned North on Hollenbeck, I could hear the motorcycle "throttle-up" as it gained speed - sounded pretty loud at one-thirty in the morning!
  
  + Part 2 (4min:51sec, 854K)
  This part covers the portion where the suspect gets on the freeway and "opens-up" reaching speeds up to 110-mph. The suspect ended up driving down a dead-end street in San Bernardino County far from where it started in Los Angeles County. Unfortunately, due to the distance where the pursuit ended, it was just out of my scanner's range and communications began to break so I had to deleted the end portion of the clip.