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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/R2BOMHJ7SFPDCKAH3O4PX2HL67MZPZBX/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "R2BOMHJ7SFPDCKAH3O4PX2HL67MZPZBX", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/R2BOMHJ7SFPDCKAH3O4PX2HL67MZPZBX/", "sender": { "address": "redailey1 (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Rich Dailey (Gmail)", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: OSCAR I Antenna", "date": "2009-12-31T15:06:59Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "A bit of a correction/addition to my earlier email. Don Stoner, W6TNS (sk) described\nthe antenna of OSCAR I in a Feb 1962 article in CQ:\n\n\"The cover of the package contained a fixture for the 1/4 wave monopole which\nused the case as a counterpoise. The antenna was secured to the cover until after the\ntransmitter separated from the parent vehicle.\"\n\nRich, N8UX\n\n\nAt 11:49 PM 12/30/2009, you wrote:\n>I understand that the early Oscars got their ride into space by replacing a piece of concrete (or similar dead weight material) with our satellite. That's why they have the shape that they do (looking like a segment of a ring).\n>But what about the antenna? Was it deployed after launch, or did it ride into space already sticking out the side? An on-orbit deploy would have been excessively complicated for that era (it's even difficult today!), but I can't see something like that surviving launch intact, either.\n\n", "attachments": [] }