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KB2VXA > PACKET 28.09.11 15:36l 34 Lines 1542 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 7654_VK6ZRT
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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > spaced out
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Sent: 110928/1422Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:7654 [Boyanup] $:7654_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : PACKET@WW
Hi Pete, Ian and whomever may be lurking,
Since you brought up Mir in the mix maybe I should mention how easy it
was to establish voice comms with the cosmonauts in the beginning. Not
having the moonraker array usually associated with satellites and
building an eggbeater would have been a complicated waste for a short
lived venture (The Ventures In Space?) a simple groundplane slapped
together nicely filled the bill. Being the earliest of birds (no, not
another pun) I had them all to myself for the entire 10 minute pass. So
why a groundplane? Except for the cone of silence directly overhead the
high radiation angle is ideal for space communications. BTW, I did the
same with the ISS, it's rather like catching the CQ of a rare DX station
before the dog pile starts. Well, that was my indoor star party. (;->)
Lest I forget, the inimatable Bob VK6BE just might show up one day, the
signs look favorable. If I could only teach frogs to surround his house
and chant BOB BOB BOB... we could get a rise out of him. Not so
farfetched in theory at least, you must have read the news about what
happened when hippies surrounded the Pentagon and chanted OUT DEMONS OUT.
Lastly, you got me wondering what happened if anything when that
satellite crash landed last week. The media was all over it in
anticipation, then POOF, silence.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 14:18 on 2011-Sep-28 GMT
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