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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HCHY3F4MPEOUZQCMDQAD5PG5I6D2BQHJ/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "HCHY3F4MPEOUZQCMDQAD5PG5I6D2BQHJ", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/HCHY3F4MPEOUZQCMDQAD5PG5I6D2BQHJ/", "sender": { "address": "wb7dru (a) usfamily.net", "mailman_id": "c76716c97e0146be906e6281856b7b72", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/c76716c97e0146be906e6281856b7b72/emails/" }, "sender_name": "[email protected]", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: NASA 2 Line via mail?", "date": "2009-11-25T19:30:55Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "I loved using the manuel method! I even went so far as to derive the orbit equations myself. But it was exciting when the tracking software for the Timex Z-81. Still have have one in the shack.\n\nDave \n\n-------------------------\nSent on my Palm Centro using the Verizon Wireless 3Geee network\n\n-----Original Message-----\n\nFrom: \"i8cvs\" <[email protected]>\nSubj: [amsat-bb] Re: NASA 2 Line via mail?\nDate: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:07 am\nSize: 1K\nTo: \"J.D. Smith\" <[email protected]>; \"AMSAT-BB\" <[email protected]>\n\nHi Smith, N4VIL\n\nEarly in 1972 I was receiving by regular post the 2 Line Orbital Data from\nGoddard to be used for the meteorological satellites ESSA-8, NIMBUS and\nTIROS\n\nFor traching I used as well the azimuthal map of the earth with a foot print\ntransparent overly and a revolving satellite orbital path.\n\nYes...no computers at all in the Ham shack at that time but manual tracking\n using a map a pencil and a clock was a beginning very useful and exciting.\n\n73\" de\n\ni8CVS Domenico\n\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"J.D. Smith\" <[email protected]>\nTo: <[email protected]>\nSent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:15 PM\nSubject: [amsat-bb] Re: NASA 2 Line via mail?\n\n\n> Rich,\n>\n> I remember receiving the two line elements from Goddard in the\nmid-eighties.\n> I was just getting into amateur radio, but was only using the data to\n> predict visual sightings of the shuttle and satellites. I believe the list\nI\n> received was a generic for visable satellites. I used the data to manually\n> plot an orbital track with grease pencil on a piece of acetate, using it\nas\n> an overlay on a map of the earth. I'm sure there's probably more than a\nfew\n> people here that did the same 'back in the day'. Aren't computers great!\n>\n> 73,\n>\n> J.D. Smith\n> N4VIL\n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________\nSent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\nNot an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\nSubscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n\n\n\n\n--- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html ---\n\n", "attachments": [] }