On Sunday, May 15, 2022, 1:05 PM, Bob Liddy (K8BL) <k8bl@ameritech.net> wrote:
I found mine from xx-years ago and IT STILL WORKS!!de Bob K8BLOn Sunday, May 15, 2022, 12:39:01 PM EDT, Jim Sanford <wb4gcs@wb4gcs.org> wrote:Just located mine: In my U. S. Naval Academy issued navigation kit: 1972!!
Jim
On 5/14/2022 23:58, George Henry wrote:
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> My son-in-law has a fully functional SIX FOOT slide rule...
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>
> George, KA3HSW
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> On 5/14/2022 6:59 PM, Greg D wrote:
>> I used a slide rule when taking the Advanced license test. Passed
>> with flying colors. Still have it, and it still works.
>>
>> Greg KO6TH
>>
>> On May 14, 2022 3:18:24 PM PDT, Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB
>> <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
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>> During my satellite presentations, I will ask attendees to access
>> their
>> slide rules as we together derive satellite pass data manually,
>> to graph
>> each pass on equatorial graph paper …
>>
>> “What - no one has a slide rule?” I will playfully chide them.
>> “Didn’t the
>> club president tell you all to have him for the presentation?”
>>
>> Well, the Puget Sound Repeater Group just floored me: EIGHT SLIDE
>> RULES were in the audience (three from one person, including a
>> circular one and I recognized another as a Pickett Vector Model
>> 300 -
>> in its original leather case)!
>>
>> A wonderful club. Sixty-two total years of supporting their region.
>> Multiple daily nets that are well-attended (I know - I monitored ‘em
>> via Echolink for a couple days). ARRL Special Service Club …
>>
>> https://web.psrg.org/
>>
>> And very exciting for them: a 89-degree elevation pass of the ISS
>> this evening during their 9PM Net!
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>> I lost count … I think this was the 144th or 145th show
>> presented. It
>> is not getting old … as long as clubs want to know how to work the
>> "easy” satellites, AMSAT will get the information to them!
>>
>> Clint Bradford K6LCS
>> AMSAT Ambassador
>> ARRL Affiliate Club Coordinator, registered instructor
>> (909) 999-SATS - voicemail
>>
>>
>>
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