Hello Tom Doyle!
We worked Oscar 8, mode J on 23mar82 at 1520Z...I've got #219 entered in the remarks column, whatever that means, maybe Mode J club??? With a check in the qsl column so I assume we exchanged cards..
So you can count San Diego county if that still works???
Counties to me mean hunting boundaries..
Lots of familiar calls....any other OT's still around??
I have done the same thing with my logbooks over the past 31 years, with quite a few big gaps....FM seems to make sort of a buzzing in my fillings???
If you have not been on satellites for a really long time (> 20 years) you may find this interesting. It explains why us old geezers say the old days were amazing. If you were on decades ago it may bring back memories.
I have been getting back into hamming after a long hiatus and have been listening to the satellites for a month or two while working on a controller project and decided it was time to try and make a contact. Thanks to K4MOA and W5MPC, today I made my first sat contacts in a very long time. A little later I almost made a cw contact (used my trusty old J-38 key) on another sat but lost him. I told you this was interesting and really exciting.
Thought I had better log the contacts and started looking for a logbook. Found a old slightly yellowed logbook with Oscar-10 written on the cover. As a group we hams (including me) are pretty cheap so I had saved this logbook because there were empty pages still left in it. I entered my new contacts on a fresh page (decided to splurge) and then looked back and found it was my first sat contact since 1983. I know you are still waiting for the exciting part.
Here is a typical page from the log. I am in Wisconsin and believe it or not I had pile ups of europeans wanting to work Wisconsin of all things. It was a real thrill. Times change and I now have two grid squares - not sure what they are for but I have two and feel the need for more. There are 29 empty pages left in the logbook so I am good to go. Hope to work you.
http://www.tomdoyle.org/satellite/Amsat-1983.jpg
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73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
I remember working Oscar 7 back about '81..'82. I homebrewed a stack of 4, 11 element 2m yagis just for the purpose. I used a Kenwood TR-9000 (I think) for the uplink and a Kenwood TS-520s for the downlink. I don't even remember how we used to determine when the passes were but I think it had something to do with info published in QST. Soon after that, life interfered and I was inactive for many years. The most sad thing is that I didn't save my old logbooks. So, If by some odd chance, someone has a record of a contact with WD9JFY on the old bird, please let me know. Hindsight is always 20-20. :-((
Chuck, KM9U (EX WD9JFY)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Guimont" dguimon1@san.rr.com To: "Thomas Doyle" tomdoyle1948@gmail.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 16:44 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Oscar-10
Hello Tom Doyle!
We worked Oscar 8, mode J on 23mar82 at 1520Z...I've got #219 entered in the remarks column, whatever that means, maybe Mode J club??? With a check in the qsl column so I assume we exchanged cards..
So you can count San Diego county if that still works???
Counties to me mean hunting boundaries..
Lots of familiar calls....any other OT's still around??
I have done the same thing with my logbooks over the past 31 years, with quite a few big gaps....FM seems to make sort of a buzzing in my fillings???
If you have not been on satellites for a really long time (> 20 years) you may find this interesting. It explains why us old geezers say the old days were amazing. If you were on decades ago it may bring back memories.
I have been getting back into hamming after a long hiatus and have been listening to the satellites for a month or two while working on a controller project and decided it was time to try and make a contact. Thanks to K4MOA and W5MPC, today I made my first sat contacts in a very long time. A little later I almost made a cw contact (used my trusty old J-38 key) on another sat but lost him. I told you this was interesting and really exciting.
Thought I had better log the contacts and started looking for a logbook. Found a old slightly yellowed logbook with Oscar-10 written on the cover. As a group we hams (including me) are pretty cheap so I had saved this logbook because there were empty pages still left in it. I entered my new contacts on a fresh page (decided to splurge) and then looked back and found it was my first sat contact since 1983. I know you are still waiting for the exciting part.
Here is a typical page from the log. I am in Wisconsin and believe it or not I had pile ups of europeans wanting to work Wisconsin of all things. It was a real thrill. Times change and I now have two grid squares - not sure what they are for but I have two and feel the need for more. There are 29 empty pages left in the logbook so I am good to go. Hope to work you.
http://www.tomdoyle.org/satellite/Amsat-1983.jpg
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73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com Disagree: I learn.... Pulling for P3E...
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