Perhaps you missed the introduction that this is the 50th anniversary of the first amateur satellite launch newsletter?
Dateline: Project OSCAR Newsletter November 15, 1961 at 1345 PST
Project OSCAR is providing reproductions of the satellite news from 50 years ago when OSCAR 1 was announced on November 15 and launched on December 12, 1961.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM [email protected] Editor, AMSAT News Service
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Adams Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 15:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-317 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins
Who writes this stuff? There's 700,000 licensed Amateur Radio Operators in the United States alone!
*"There are an estimated 300,000 licensed radio amateurs in the world, and the American Radio Relay League hopes a large number of these hobbyists will participate in the forthcoming experiments."*
Jim Adams - K0BAM Delta Colorado *
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