Come on gang, where is everybody? I was alone on VO52 this am, an signals were very strong, but talking to myself about GB0O1.....
I made 4 contacts on AO51 yesterday...the anniversary date...
I was fortunate that I made contact on VO52 with Rick, WA4NVM on VO52....Now I have an AO7 contact to make to complete the circuit...
Perhaps I am more emotionally involved...I personally knew three of the designers and builders of Oscar 1, thru low band contacts with them....I was on active duty in a Squadron on an aircraft carrier so I had no chance to actively participate, other than to encourage those three individuals...The three of them are now cq'ing from above....
My first chance to set up a station was Oscar 7, and subsequently got to meet all three in person...Harley Gabrielson lived here in San Diego, and saw him often throughout the years....
It is certainly a highlite in AMATEUR SATELLITE RADIO, it was Project Oscar at the time, became AMSAT, and now it seems AMSAT-NA cares not to acknowledge the facts,
Kudos to Rob G8ATE, in Jolly Old, for initiating...
GB0O1
GB ZERO OSCAR ONE the callsign for five days to commemorate the launch of O1 and celebrate PROJECT OSCAR...
Come on guys, get in the act!!
Don't forget the Genesis of all AMSATS, and a means, in my mind, to promote peace in a small but meaningful way....
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
Hi Guys,
Apologies to anyone who has been listening for GB0OO.
Robert G8ATE has been unwell, and I have been heavily commited at work and not able to get on the sats. Robert is feeling a little better and will try to get on in the next day or so. In the meantime, when you work the sats, give a thought to the poiners of Oscar1 and their major achievement. The first non governmental payload to go into space was designed and built, by and for, radio hams. Its a tradition that makes me proud to hold a callsign.
73 John G7HIA
Apologies to anyone who has been listening for GB0OO.
Robert G8ATE has been unwell, and I have been heavily commited at work and not able to get on the sats. Robert is feeling a little better and will try to get on in the next day or so. In the meantime, when you work the sats, give a thought to the poiners of Oscar1 and their major achievement. The first non governmental payload to go into space was designed and built, by and for, radio hams. Its a tradition that makes me proud to hold a callsign.
73 John G7HIA
Very good, John, Rob said he was a bit under the wx.
But just the fact that the callsign exists is a tribute to those early hamsat pioneers....If some of the present users don't appreciate those pioneers, at least England doing something about it..Congrats...
Some AMSAT-NA members act as tho they invented satellite amateur radio and swept Project Oscar under the rug!! So be it. The facts are there.
I'm green with envy that or present leo's don't allow a direct contact with that callsign. So every contact I make, I mention the callsign, in the very spirit of the event.
Congrats to all of you in G-land that made this possible...
Third world coming up for the USA, unless we get off our duffs in a lot of todays technology....
Have a Merry Christmas, and pse pass that on to GB0O1
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
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