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Re:A Laser Message from Space by _delirium on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:42AM (#7932185)
I believe NASA does have a few UHF stations elsewhere, or at least used to. As of a 1998 document about the shuttle program [1], they listed 6 UHF air-to-ground stations, 3 of them in other countries. The U.S.-based ones were in Guam, Hawaii, and Florida; and the others were in Ascension Island (a British dependency halfway between Africa and South America), Bermuda (a British dependency off the east coast of Canada), and Dakar, Senegal.

[1] http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/s...

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Re:A Laser Message from Space by jdmichal on Monday June 23, 2014 @12:06PM (#7932683)
Just a clarification: Bermuda is not really close to any major coastline, and certainly not the Canadian one.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bermuda/@31.2546129,-41.52...

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Re:A Laser Message from Space by toomuchtodo on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:26PM (#7934403)
850 miles (closest point is in North Carolina) isn't necessarily far.
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Re:A Laser Message from Space by jdmichal on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:39PM (#7935200)
When someone says "off the coast", I would not expect 850 miles of distance. And, even more, when they say "off the east coast", I would not expect it to be almost directly south of the east coast. Those were the points I was attempting to relay.
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