... search through the archives and you'll find roughly 500000 topics involving 'tripods'.
The amsat-bb archive is open to all at: https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/
It is possible to search AMSAT's archives (amsat-bb and ANS) by using the "site:" command in Google. For example, to find all mentions of the word "tripod" in amsat-bb, type this line into a browser opened to the Google front page:
Tripod site:http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb
To restrict the search to a particular year, type:
Tripod site:http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2014
The AMSAT News Service (ANS) archives are searchable in a similar manner (for example hamvention in 2016):
hamvention site:http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org