----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Doyle" <tomdoyle1...@gmail.com> To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:58 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Oscar-10
> I sent this some time ago but I never saw it show up so - sorry if it is a > re-post. Hi Tom, W9KE I remember your previous post ! > > If you have not been on satellites for a really long time (> 20 years) you > may find this interesting. It explains why us old geezers say the old days > were amazing. If you were on decades ago it may bring back memories. I am on satellites since OSCAR-6 and I agree with you because only the old days were amazing . > > I have been getting back into hamming after a long hiatus and have been > listening to the satellites for a month or two while working on a > controller project and decided it was time to try and make a contact. > Thanks to K4MOA and W5MPC, today I made my first sat contacts in a very > long time. > A little later I almost made a cw contact (used my trusty old J-38 key) on > another sat but lost him. I told you this was interesting and really > exciting. I suggest you to work linear satellites like the old OSCAR-7 ,VO-52 and FO-29 but forget for ever please the single channel FM satellites. > > Thought I had better log the contacts and started looking for a logbook. > Found a old slightly yellowed logbook with Oscar-10 written on the cover. > As a group we hams (including me) are pretty cheap so I had saved this > logbook because there were empty pages still left in it. I entered my new > contacts on a fresh page (decided to splurge) and then looked back and > found it was my first sat contact since 1983. I know you are still waiting > for the exciting part. Please look if my call letter i8CVS is included in your logbook because at that old amazing days I was active on OSCAR-10 every days except in august. > > Here is a typical page from the log. I am in Wisconsin and believe it or > not I had pile ups of europeans wanting to work Wisconsin of all things. > It was a real thrill. Times change and I now have two grid squares - not > sure what they are for but I have two and feel the need for more. There > are 29 empty pages left in the logbook so I am good to go. Hope to work > you. Unfortunately time are changed because actually we don't have any HEO satellite in orbit like OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 but we have only three linear LEO satellites like the old OSCAR-7, VO-52 and FO-29 and the rest of single channel FM satellites are good for nothing. > > http://www.tomdoyle.org/satellite/Amsat-1983.jpg I was looking on your logbook page and I am not included on it because during the month of august I was normally in vacations from my job but I found in it i3EIE Mario and i7LIT Rino both my good satellite friends at that early days. Please look before and after the month of august 1985 and I sure that you will find me as well. We only hope that AMSAT-DL will be able to launch a new HEO satellite P3-E wich is similar to OSCAR-10 and OSCAR-13 but unfortunately we don't have actually a launch contract and AMSAT.DL need donations from the Ham satellite community all over the world. If you can please subscribe to AMSAT-DL and ................Pull for P3-E ! > > 73 tom... W9KE 73" to you my old friend Tom ,W9KE i8CVS Domenico _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
