Hi,
I was very interested in Jeff's and Dave's comments. Was there more than one 'Chicken Little' competition? AMSAT-UK took over the competition which was originally started by UoS. The winner was Geoff G3ENY, who sadly is no longer with us.
I spent quite a lot of time attempting to predict the 'burn-up'of OSCAR-9 and Salyut7. I'll put together what information I can find, and post it here in a few days time. I would be very interested whether any one can find any references in the AMSAT Journal or elsewhere, other than in OSCAR News, which I already have.
Seasonal best wishes to all.
Hi Clive,
There was the Solar Max Chicken Little contest. According to the data I have UO-9 re-entered Oct 13, 1990 while Solar Max re-entered Dec 2, 1989.
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Clive Wallis" clivew@zetnet.co.uk To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 7:34 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Oscar 9 Re-entry
Hi,
I was very interested in Jeff's and Dave's comments. Was there more than one 'Chicken Little' competition? AMSAT-UK took over the competition which was originally started by UoS. The winner was Geoff G3ENY, who sadly is no longer with us.
I spent quite a lot of time attempting to predict the 'burn-up'of OSCAR-9 and Salyut7. I'll put together what information I can find, and post it here in a few days time. I would be very interested whether any one can find any references in the AMSAT Journal or elsewhere, other than in OSCAR News, which I already have.
Seasonal best wishes to all.
-- 73
Clive G3CWV
Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, UK.
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Hi Clive, There was the Solar Max Chicken Little contest. According to the data I have UO-9 re-entered Oct 13, 1990 while Solar Max re-entered Dec 2, 1989.
Jeff Oscar9 entered on 13oct89....have that date on all my paperwork..
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the correction. I was looking at so many docs I got some items transposed. :)
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Guimont" dguimon1@san.rr.com To: "Jeff Yanko" wb3jfs@cox.net Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Oscar 9 Re-entry
Hi Clive, There was the Solar Max Chicken Little contest. According to the data I have UO-9 re-entered Oct 13, 1990 while Solar Max re-entered Dec 2, 1989.
Jeff Oscar9 entered on 13oct89....have that date on all my paperwork..
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com Disagree: I learn.... Pulling for P3E...
I was very interested in Jeff's and Dave's comments. Was there more than one 'Chicken Little' competition? AMSAT-UK took over the competition which was originally started by UoS. The winner was Geoff G3ENY, who sadly is no longer with us.
I spent quite a lot of time attempting to predict the 'burn-up'of OSCAR-9 and Salyut7. I'll put together what information I can find, and post it here in a few days time. I would be very interested whether any one can find any references in the AMSAT Journal or elsewhere, other than in OSCAR News, which I already have.
I haven't been following ANDE, but with the tools available today, a lot of people should come pretty close...
I did it with manual recording of the various parameters b'cast by O9, and used the one that seemed the best predictor of its demise...Leanore and I both submitted entries, but we were not on the winners list!!
I feel very fortunate that I recorded and submitted the last telemetry, and was given credit for it by UoS.
I showed my "prowess" http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads
at OSCAR9XXXXX.JPG
I have all of Project Oscars pubs somewhere (my wife, KA6UCD, did the "OSCAR LETTER" with Issue #19 in Jan 91) She has copies of all the ones she published, she did it for over two years...
She inherited it from Margaret Nakayama, KB6HWV, who did issue #18. Margaret inherited it from her husband Gary Nakayama.
I have his copy #8, and it was called "Project Oscar, User's Group Newsletter"....That is dated October 1987...
And somewhere in my garage I have a copy that records all the stats on the demise of O9.....UoS may have that info somewhere also???
Maybe Jeff, wb3jfs@cox.net, can tell you the leaders...seems to me he was right up front....
Off to a garage search...gad, I hate that!!
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
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Jeff Yanko