Vintage Spacelab 2 video featuring Amateur Radio
A video of the 1985 Space Shuttle STS-51-F Challenger Spacelab 2 Post Flight Press Conference has been made available on YouTube.
The SAREX contacts of Tony England W0ORE are mentioned at 11:40 into the video.
See http://www.uk.amsat.org/7639
73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/ ----
Hi Trevor, M5AKA
I was receiving Tony England W0ORE from the Space Shuttle STS-51-F Challenger Spacelab 2 in beginning august 1985.
In that days I was in vacation at my home in Paestum and able to receive the very strong SSTV signal in 2 meters standing on the beach with only a handheld FT-290 and his hown 1/4 wave antenna.
Some time Tony was speaking for a whole orbit with a station in England, GB2RS if I well remember, and I should have somewhere an audio tape cassette recordered.
Wery nice to remember that days !
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor ." m5aka@yahoo.co.uk To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:31 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Vintage Spacelab 2 video featuring Amateur Radio
A video of the 1985 Space Shuttle STS-51-F Challenger Spacelab 2 Post Flight Press Conference has been made available on YouTube.
The SAREX contacts of Tony England W0ORE are mentioned at 11:40 into the video.
See http://www.uk.amsat.org/7639
73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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--- On Wed, 23/5/12, i8cvs domenico.i8cvs@tin.it wrote:
Some time Tony was speaking for a whole orbit with a station in England, GB2RS if I well remember, and I should have somewhere an audio tape cassette recordered.
Yes that would be GB3RS, there's a link on the page the TV News story that shows the RSGB HQ station.
http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITN/1985/08/04/AS040885006/
73 Trevor M5AKA
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