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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/UGLS2VBIM77YNRTSCGDYKEXLIJHEMQGM/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "UGLS2VBIM77YNRTSCGDYKEXLIJHEMQGM", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/YQPY36U3CHMQKMTVREVNA6DGL6RLKPLV/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "les (a) highnoonfilm.com", "mailman_id": "07b279ba80664583a53ebd6517566881", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/07b279ba80664583a53ebd6517566881/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Les Rayburn", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154", "date": "2019-02-28T05:51:26Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/F6WXOIH6S5FQE2I4BVRAY7CH5UAT2HZY/?format=api", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Tremendous, thank you so much. I’m out of town on a film shoot, but when I return I’ll download them right away. The computer simulation is kinda cool too! \n\n\n73,\n\nLes Rayburn, N1LF\nMaylene, AL \nEM63nf\nAMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member\n\n\n\n\n> On Feb 27, 2019, at 7:25 PM, Wendy and Terry Osborne <[email protected]> wrote:\n> \n> Hi Les and Bob,\n> \n> I found my copy of “The Satellite Experimenter’s Handbook” and I’ve scanned the relevant pages.\n> You can find them here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3h4a7o1yebx8omw/AADtG27IZBVy-iQ2ly87sY2qa?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3h4a7o1yebx8omw/AADtG27IZBVy-iQ2ly87sY2qa?dl=0>\n> Yes I couldn’t get my pages all aligned the same way.\n> \n> You can also find a computer simulation here: http://www.tomdoyle.org/OscarLocator/OscarLocator.html <http://www.tomdoyle.org/OscarLocator/OscarLocator.html>\n> \n> 73,\n> Terry Osborne ZL2BAC\n> \n> From: Les Rayburn <mailto:[email protected]>\n> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 7:15 PM\n> To: Bob Meyers <mailto:[email protected]>\n> Cc: Wendy and Terry Osborne <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>\n> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154\n> \n> Bob, \n> \n> What a wonderful re-discovery. Any chance you could scan that ARRL publication? I’ve searched Amazon and Ebay since getting your e-mail, but no joy. I’d love to add it to my collection of vintage amateur satellite items. \n> \n> Neat stuff indeed! \n> \n> \n> 73,\n> \n> Les Rayburn, N1LF\n> Maylene, AL \n> EM63nf\n> AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member\n> \n> \n> \n> \n>> On Feb 24, 2019, at 8:47 PM, Bob Meyers <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:\n>> \n>> I just was digging through my ham shack and there was my original Oscarlocator, first revision, 12-76. I also found a publication from the ARRL, \"Getting to know Oscar from the ground up\" published in 1977. It describes how to use the Oscarlocator. All you needed was the EQX, equator-crossing information that was provided by the W1AW bulletins and you could predict AOS and LOS for Oscar 6 or 7. Pretty neat stuff at the time.\n>> \n>> Bob\n>> WA8FXQ \n>> \n>>> On Feb 24, 2019, at 7:24 PM, Wendy and Terry Osborne <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:\n>>> \n>>> Hi Les,\n>>> \n>>> The Oscar locator and how it works was described in much detail in \"The Satellite Experimenter's Handbook\".\n>>> This was published by ARRL. You may be able to find a copy around some where.\n>>> It still has a lot of useful information in it even if the satellites referred to are long gone.\n>>> I made up several Oscar-Locators in the early 80s and used them a lot.\n>>> I found them the other day when I was having a shack clean out.\n>>> \n>>> To use them you require an \"Equatorial Crossing time and longitude\" (EQX).\n>>> Bob McGwier's (N4HY) Quiktrak program gives these but I haven't checked any modern programs.\n>>> \n>>> I have a set of instructions but they are based on my Southern Hemisphere version so would need to be adapted\n>>> for use in the Northern Hemisphere.\n>>> \n>>> It would be an interesting exercise to make one for the ISS as an educational tool versus looking up an app on a smart phone.\n>>> \n>>> 73,\n>>> Terry Osborne ZL2BAC\n>>> \n>>> -----Original Message----- From: Les Rayburn\n>>> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 12:42 PM\n>>> To: AMSAT BB\n>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-Locator & Amateur Satellite Report Number 154\n>>> \n>>> Today’s mail brought me a vintage cardboard “OSCAR-Locator” purchased on QRZ.com <http://qrz.com/>. Also included was a back issue of the Amateur Satellite Report newsletter, Number 154 from July 27, 1987.\n>>> \n>>> I love collecting items related to the history of amateur satellites. The OSCAR-Locator is really neat—I’m digging through back issues of QST now trying to learn how to actually use it. Don’t think I’ll be giving up SatPC32 anytime soon however.\n>>> \n>>> Remember back even further when hams plotted satellite passes using a string and a globe? Remember watching my elmer, Ron Murray WA4IWN (SK) do that back in the day.\n>>> \n>>> \n>>> 73,\n>>> \n>>> Les Rayburn, N1LF\n>>> Maylene, AL\n>>> EM63nf\n>>> AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member\n>>> \n>>> \n>>> \n>>> \n>>> _______________________________________________\n>>> Sent via [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed\n>>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.\n>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb <http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb> \n>>> _______________________________________________\n>>> Sent via [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed\n>>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.\n>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb <http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb>\n>> \n>> \n> \n> \n\n", "attachments": [] }