This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the Russians. Many of us remember it! The rest is history.
73 Bob W7LRD
Bob,
I remember it. Was in Jr. HS and the Science Teacher explained the whole concept of it to our class and I was awed by how it could just stay up there and not fall down.
Now, we just take satellites for granted. We think nothing of picking up a handheld XCVR and talking to folks halfway across the country through one of them hurtling through the sky above. WOW!!
73, Bob K8BL
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This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the Russians. Many of us remember it! The rest is history.
73 Bob W7LRD
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Well said Bob K8BL. While the why and how they stay up there IS amazing, I continue to be totally in awe by how we can communicate with/thru them from so far and with a hand-held/qrp, almost full quieting !! 73! Umesh K6VUG
On Thursday, October 4, 2018, 4:21:17 PM PDT, R.T.Liddy k8bl@ameritech.net wrote:
Bob,
I remember it. Was in Jr. HS and the Science Teacher explained the whole concept of it to our class and I was awed by how it could just stay up there and not fall down.
Now, we just take satellites for granted. We think nothing of picking up a handheld XCVR and talking to folks halfway across the country through one of them hurtling through the sky above. WOW!!
73, Bob K8BL
________________________________ From: Bob- W7LRD w7lrd@comcast.net To: amsat-bb amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 6:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] 1957
This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the Russians. Many of us remember it! The rest is history.
73 Bob W7LRD
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My school classmate Mark, now WB6MMG, and I listened to Sputnik beep on a SW radio (can't remember what the radio model was).
As noted on Wiki: "News reports at the time pointed out that "anyone possessing a short wave receiver can hear the new Russian earth satellite as it hurtles over this area of the globe". Directions, provided by the American Radio Relay League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Radio_Relay_League were to "Tune in 20 megacycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz sharply, by the time signals, given on that frequency."
Sputnik's orbits were often visible at night during it's short life span.
Chuck N7BFO
On 10/4/2018 3:53 PM, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the Russians. Many of us remember it! The rest is history.
You guys are making me feel young. That was about a year before I was conceived...
I'll help you out Jim, it would be 24 years before I was born. :)
-- 73, Don KB2YSI
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 22:32 Jim Walls jim@k6ccc.org wrote:
On 10/4/2018 3:53 PM, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the
Russians. Many of us remember it! The rest is history.
You guys are making me feel young. That was about a year before I was conceived...
-- 73
Jim Walls - K6CCC jim@k6ccc.org Ofc: 818-548-4804 http://members.dslextreme.com/users/k6ccc/ AMSAT Member 32537 - WSWSS Member 395
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I think that being born at the "dawn of the space age" (1956) has a lot to do with why I am so unstable and keep messing with satellites!
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 10/4/2018 17:53, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the Russians. Many of us remember it! The rest is history.
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