I am nostalgic, though. I well remember my first Oscar QSOs in the 1970s, the sadness of the P3A launch failure followed by the success of AO-10. Then came the early UoSATs and Jeff Ward's UoSAT-2 (UO-11) Packet gateway, Pacsats and involvement with UoSAT-3 and 4 (the infamous VITASAT, half amateur/half 'commercial'). And on it went through AO-13's launch, which I managed to get telecast live on C-SPAN.
Unlike Bob, these days I'm totally out of the satellite business for work or play. I've donated all of my AMSAT publications, videos and the like to the Historic Electronics Museum south of Baltimore.
What's left are great memories and continued friendships!
73, Eric W3DQ (ex- WA6YBT , WD3Q) Washington, DC
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amsat-bb-request@amsat.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:30:51 -0500 From: Bob McGwier n4hy@idaccr.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT history To: Peter Guelzow peter.guelzow@kourou.de Cc: amsat bb amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: 45461AAB.6000700@idaccr.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Peter:
We are all getting older. I find I am more nostalgic than I ever believed I could be. May be it is the current launch environment that has me wanting to go back to the "good old days".
73's Bob N4HY
Peter Guelzow wrote:
Bob,
great pictures - thank you!!
Indeed, they give me a few good memories about places I'd like to be and where I have been long time ago.. Man, I'm getting old!!!! ;-)
AMSAT has an amazing history. I find the memories are best aided by photo's because I would otherwise probably forget. I have taken all of
For the same reason I started to upload images of various satellite project into the AMSAT-DL Gallery at:
http://www.amsat-dl.org/pic/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=312
Got stuck somewhere, but will continue when time permits...
73s Peter
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