5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
2:23 a.m.
Fred Hicks, W6EJU, didn’t have a rocket, but he did have the requisite enthusiasm and, having worked for a missile contractor and witnessing six satellite launches, some background in the field. He contacted Stoner and the dream began to be take shape. Hicks eventually became chairman of the Project OSCAR—Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio—Association located in California, and Stoner wrote the first major article about amateur satellites, published in the February 1961 issue of QST. “Be assured,” he wrote, “that this is not an April Fool joke.”
From the November, 1999 issue of QST Magazine: Keeping Track of OSCAR
Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359 909-241-7666