Gould,
Your book got me interested and gave me plenty of information I needed to on the birds. It's well written and organized. And as you mention the price is right and goes to support AMSAT.
I also recommend the Sattelite Handbook from the ARRL. A great follow up to your intro.
I'll save Clint the chance to post about his most excellent site as well. He got lots of good reference material, geared toward the ham just getting started on the birds:
http://web.me.com/clintbradford/Work-Sat/Home.html
73
Sent from my iPod Rick Tejera Editor, SACnews Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org K7TEJ
On Jan 27, 2011, at 13:17, "Gould Smith" gouldsmi@bellsouth.net wrote:
Hello Kevin,
Glad you are finding information and sharing it.
AMSAT does offer a publication specifically to assist the newcomer "Getting Started With Amateur Satellites", available at the AMSAT store. It has yearly updates and many years of input that cover most everything that those new to satellites need to know.
It is offered at a reasonable price and AMSAT receives all the proceeds.
73, Gould, WA4SXM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Deane" summit496@live.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:56 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] So I am not the only one...
I agree 100%. I am still pretty new at this, I also have troublefinding up to date sites. So a friend of mine let me have like half of this site and I get to put whatever I want on it, and he does practically all the work! all I have to do is keep it updated. Easy right?
So if anyone has information they would like to contribute pleasee-mail me or post it on the forum @ nvllrc.org, theres just an article I wrote and a bunch of relevent links at the bottom so far. I have lots of time to keep it up to date and will put whatever you guys want on there!!! I put that AO-51 pdf on there.
Anyway, if you guys arent against the new and young guys. I am tryingto make it so people dont make the same mistakes I did, like cloggin up the passes with calls when I had no ears. Stuff like that. You know the way you guys want it done not just guesswork and trial and error. So not that anyone will do it but at least there will be one site with usefull info and you dont half to go through old posts, or ask for new post and whatever please help!!
Still excited, Kevin KF7MYK
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