OK...we cannot trust, necessarily, the ARTICLE you cited... But the OSCAR site - and its new blog - has "Orbiting..." in its headline/logo!

So many of those original amateurs are SKs...

OK...Back to normal ops. THANK YOU ALL.

Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359 909-241-7666

On Aug 4, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Gould Smith wrote:

The Project OSCAR group coined the term OSCAR,

http://projectoscar.wordpress.com/project-oscar-history/oscar-i-newspaper-ar...

They are the authority on what the O stands for.