Hi Stefan, Well I'm definitely interested in having one when it's ready and I for one will not be throwing darts at it. I have some time off from work coming up and I'm hoping to finally finish setting my station back up so I can start throwing some "RF darts" at the real AO-51 and AO-7 and VO-52 as well. I like em all!!! 73, Michael, W4HIJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Wagener" [email protected] To: "'Michael A. Tondee'" [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:09 PM Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: Radio amateur calling protocol
Thanks Michael.
The cardboard model is still being worked on. Will be available soon. I actually have it hanging in my shack and folks love it! The cool thing is that it is a "moving target" for the those throwing darts. Always bouncing back. Energizer bunny stuff. HiHi
73, Stefan VE4NSA
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael A. Tondee Sent: February-26-08 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Radio amateur calling protocol
I remember a recent Journal article about a cardboard model of AO-51 and the
first thing thing that came to my mind was that it would be the perfect gift
for some of the folks who constantly grouse about FM sats. They could hang it in their shack and throw darts at it. ;-) Seriously though, I want an HEO
bird up there as much as everyone else does and I never even had the privledge of working AO-40. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy working FM sats.
We've got what we've got and until P3E we just have to live with it. I was greatly saddened to see FO-29 take a turn for the worse. I mean , things could be a lot worse, we could have nothing up there. 73, Michael, W4HIJ
Why was [AO51] built??