On 9/28/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) cm2esp@frcuba.co.cu wrote:
Nope, It was only announced on the HearSat mailing list and only few enthusiastics replied. On this world of new space probes with S band downlinks very few are interested in monitoring old birds which comes back to live spontaneously.
When the 50th anniversary of Alouette 1 came and went, there wasn't much on the news about it here in Canada or, at least, I didn't see much. I guess it wasn't as fancy as a Blackberry.
However the happiness and enjoy I felt after re-discover that old historical
spacecraft is beyond compare.... It is like space archeology.... An U.S. ham
re-discovered LES-1 several months ago and some media wrote a news report, but the original owner/builder of the satellite didn't reply to his e-mail....
About Allouette-2, the interesting was the international collaboration, Cuba
and Australia are almost in opposites part of the world, but Mike Kenny and
I still exchange information and collaboreted for confirm the re-discovery,
and that my friend is the true ham spirit....
I've been listening to the archived recordings of The Space Show at:
and one point the host often makes is that space has been one realm in which different nations have largely co-operated and have generally remained peaceful.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL