1990 version of ARRL's Satellite Experimenter's Handbook, by K2UBC
I was looking through my ham radio bookshelves (yes, plural!) a few weeks ago, and I had nearly forgotten that I had this book...so I've been re-reading it. (No, I'm not interested in selling it.... <grin>)
The history alone - details about the birds up to and including AO-13 - makes for fascinating reading, never mind the technical details for orbital considerations, tracking, and building satellites. Remember that this when AO-13 was only 2 years old, AO-7 hadn't been heard from in a few years, and FM birds were only a twinkle in some engineer's eye.
If you can find this book, I highly recommend that you borrow/buy it - quite interesting to read what was going on in the satellite world 28 years ago! (I bought it in late 92/early 93 to read on the plane trip to VP2M for an AO-13 DXpedition.)
Philip N4HF
Thank you for mentioning this book! I found a reasonable copy on Amazon, it arrived last week with a batch of newer books on building and operating cubesats, and I have been working my way through it. Going to pull out my stock of laser-print transparency sheets and build an OSCARLOCATOR for the fun of it. Nothing beats getting my head around the nuts and bolts of theory than by working through it by hand and getting a full appreciation for modern automation.
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: devin@thecabal.org web: Devin on Earth cell: +1 425.239.2575
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I was looking through my ham radio bookshelves (yes, plural!) a few weeks ago, and I had nearly forgotten that I had this book...so I've been re-reading it. (No, I'm not interested in selling it.... <grin>)
The history alone - details about the birds up to and including AO-13 - makes for fascinating reading, never mind the technical details for orbital considerations, tracking, and building satellites. Remember that this when AO-13 was only 2 years old, AO-7 hadn't been heard from in a few years, and FM birds were only a twinkle in some engineer's eye.
If you can find this book, I highly recommend that you borrow/buy it - quite interesting to read what was going on in the satellite world 28 years ago! (I bought it in late 92/early 93 to read on the plane trip to VP2M for an AO-13 DXpedition.)
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