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Watching now.. they were unable to get the "hard line" voice working. VOIP?

• yellowapple 6y ago
  Considering how long the ISS has been up there, it could be POTS or something similarly-analog. Dragon→ISS was clear, but ISS→Dragon was not, making me think that maybe there's some wire or connector in the latter direction that's shoddy (and that'd be more common for analog/POTS than digital/VOIP, where such garbling would be bidirectional and/or nothing would be heard on either end). Then again, I ain't exactly a space telecom engineer, so what do I know? ;) They've since switched back to RF, so apparently it ain't the end of the world.
  • ape4 6y ago
    Makes sense. They just fixed the hard line
    • yellowapple 6y ago
      Was that the hardline or did they reroute through RF and/or "Big Loop"? I heard the loud and clear (and earlier about the cameras possibly interfering) but missed if that loud and clear was through the hardline.
      • ape4 6y ago
        Sorry dont know. Did hear mention of big loop
• zoomablemind 6y ago
  Probably a comm channel in the umbilical, kinda 'landline'. I'd assume the radio comm should be operational.