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Today's Topics:
1. W2NSD silent key (R Oler)
2. Re: W2NSD , silent key, had a full, solid life and then some
! (James R. La Frieda)
3. Bike Frame Polar Tracker (Mike Hoblinski)
4. Re: W2NSD silent key (Pat McGrath)
5. Re: W2NSD silent key (Bruce)
6. Re: W2NSD silent key (Nitin Muttin)
7. Re: W2NSD , silent key, had a full, solid life and then some
! (Harvey N. Vordenbaum)
8. Details Of Upcoming Antares/Cygnus Mission (B J)
9. EM61 (Andrew Glasbrenner)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:21:44 +0600
From: R Oler <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] W2NSD silent key
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he lived a full and solid life, but his absence will be felt....for those
who loved satellites during what is probably the golden era of hamsats.
Wayne was a friend, as he was to so many pioneering technologies. Wayne
Green. Fair skies. WB5MZO
Sent from my iPad
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:24:50 -0700
From: "James R. La Frieda" <lafrieda@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: R Oler <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>, amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD , silent key, had a full, solid life and
then some !
Message-ID: <523625A2.2090402@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On 9/15/2013 9:21 AM, R Oler wrote:
> he lived a full and solid life, but his absence will be felt....for those
who loved satellites during what is probably the golden era of hamsats.
Wayne was a friend, as he was to so many pioneering technologies. Wayne
Green. Fair skies. WB5MZO
>
> Sent from my iPad
> _______________________________________________
>
> Yes- Wayne-W2NSD- who passed away two days ago, at age 91, did indeed, as
you can observe below, lived a full solid life, and then some:
* started one of the first personal computer software companies
(Instant Software).
* opened computer software stores - eventually sold a national chain
of 58 stores.
* while in college started a broadcasting station (WRPI) which is now
the largest student activity.
* served on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Overseers
and RPI Council.
* served as the First Executive in Residence at RPI.
* served as a consultant for the RPI Business Incubator - which won
the 1996 prize as the best in the country.
* been a licensed amateur radio operator as W2NSD since 1940.
* pioneered amateur radio repeaters since 1969, starting with WRLAAB
on Mt. Monadnock NH.
* established amater radio in Jordan in 1970 and wrote their rules and
regulations.
* supplied and installed the first repeater in Jordan, J-Y73, in 1973.
* helped radio amateurs pioneer FM, radio Teletype, single sideband,
and slow scan TV.
* bounced amateur radio signals off the Moon from the big dish at the
Arecibo Observatory, PR.
* been editing and publishing amateur radio magazines for 47 years.
* a state-of-the-art digital recording studio.
* four record labels and produced over 150 CDs.
* helped re-popularize ragtime music and personally knows all of the
top ragtime performers.
* started 25 successful publications in the radio, computer and music
fields.
* published over 100 books.
* wrote one of the first books on digital communications.
* been on an African hunting safari.
* visited the ruins of Ba'albek in Lebanon, the Queen of Sheba's water
catchments in Aden.
* visited the Pyramids, the Sphynx. the ruins in Athens, the Taj Mahal
and Katmandu.
* visited the head-hunter longhouses in Sarawak.
* helped organize and lead trade groups of around 250 people to yearly
electronic shows in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
* given keynote addresses to radio, educational, computer, and music
conferences.
* helped invent a new kind of loud speaker - borrowed $1,000 on my car
to start a manufacturing company and within two and a half years it
became the largest speaker manufacturer in the country with seven
factories.
* performed in The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance in high school
* served as president of radio clubs in high school and college.
* served in Navy 1942-1946 in WWII - electronic technician on USS Drum
SS-228 (which is on display at Mobile, Alabama) for five war patrols.
* been a radio engineer and announcer in North Carolina, Florida and
Virginia.
* been chief cameraman at WPIX-TV (11) in NYC.
* produced and directed network TV shows in Dallas and Cleveland.
* a reputation as a gourmet cook.
* served as president of Porsche Club of America.
* raced my Porsche on the Nurburgring and Solitude race tracks in
Germany.
* both driven and navigated in many national SCCA car rallies.
* served as a founder and first secretary of American Mensa.
* a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science.
* lectured on entrepreneurialism at Yale, Boston University, Case
Western, Babson College, RPL and many other colleges.
* been on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and
New York in 1927.
* flown with father since 1922.
* served on the FCC's National Industry Advisory Committee (NIAC).
* served on the FCC's Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC).
* testified before a Congressional hearing on the music industry.
* had the usual toys: airplane, Porsche, yacht, Jaguar, Mercedes 600
Pullman limosine.
* worked on a Guggenheim grant on a color organ for the Guggenheim
Museum on 5th Avenue.
* graduated Bliss Electrical SchooL Tacoma Padc MD.
* attended Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco and
graduated as ETM2/c.
* served for five war patrols on SS-228 USS Dnun, made ETMI/c.
* taught electronics at Submarine School, New London CT.
* organized and run successful mail order Elm Stamp Company at age 12.
* sung in St. Pauls Church choir as boy soprano.
* sung in Philharmonic Choir of Brooklyn.
* sung in Erasmus High School Choral Club.
* pioneered the 6-meter ham band as the first New York City station on
that band.
* run a 6-meter beacon station for several years in cooperation with
the Radio Amateur Scientific Observations (RASO) program.
* for years had a VHF/UHF station on Mt. Monadnock NH; regularly heard
for over 600 miles.
* been Excutive Secretary of the Music Research Foundation, Madison
Avenue, N.Y.
* worked for GE as a test engineer on Army radio equipment.
* been an engineer at Airborne Instrument Laboratories in Mineola NY
developing radar equip.
* tried marijuana in 1948 to see what it was like.
* tried LSD in 1960 to see what that was like.
* drunk with shipmates on liberty while in the Navy. Have seldom drunk
since.
* tried smoking as a teenager, thought it was stupid. Ignored peer
pressure.
* know the real dope on Amelia Earhart's last trip.
* been convinced that NASA had to have faked all of the moon landings.
* driven from Brooklyn NY to Peterborough NH (250 miles), averaging
100 mph one night - including a gas stop.
* interesting friends such as Barry Goldwater, King Hussein, Steve
Jobs, Bill Gates, and Rod McKuen.
* been convinced that with proper nutrition and avoiding poisons we
can dependably live to over 100.
* ridden Starlit Night, the Ringling Brothers top show horse.
* a professorship of horsemanship and taught riding instructors.
* a Hubbard Dianetic Auditor certificate and has processed over 100
patients, with some remarkable successes.
* swum the three mile length of Coney Island many times.
* investigated crop circles and a UFO hovering over a house in nearby
Francestown, NH.
* drove a snowmobile 50 mph in the White Mountains of New Hampshire at
age 82.
* Other than all that I've been taking it easy and having a great time.
Like myself, he was from Brooklyn, and he came over one evening -
at the invitation of W2EEJ (Herb Greenberg, an engineer at WINS( 1010
KHz) ) and spoke with several of us at The Brooklyn
Radio Club - in 1955, when he was the Editor of CQ Magazine. At
that time, I was a 15 yr old Novice, KN2LKJ.
73's Jim (N6MV)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:15:29 -0700
From: "Mike Hoblinski" <hobergenix@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Bike Frame Polar Tracker
Message-ID: <7A1B07B33FAE4930B462089CEE4835D3@xxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I saw this on the instructables site.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle-Frame-Polar-Tracker/
Thought it was an interesting idea for maybe tracking the sun. But maybe
the more mechanically inclined might be able to build on the idea and modify
it a bit more for hamsat use. I have seen a lot of scrap bikes these days that
look like they might yield a wealth of cheap bearings, AZ-EL mount, Chains,
sprockets, ect.
Mike
N6IMF
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:27:56 -0700
From: "Pat McGrath" <ka6tya@xxxx.xxx>
To: "'R Oler'" <orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>, "'Amsat BB'"
<amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD silent key
Message-ID: <000d01ceb26b$358ed140$a0ac73c0$@xxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
A great man
-----Original Message-----
From: R Oler [mailto:orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 9:22 AM
To: Amsat BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] W2NSD silent key
he lived a full and solid life, but his absence will be felt....for those
who loved satellites during what is probably the golden era of hamsats.
Wayne was a friend, as he was to so many pioneering technologies. Wayne
Green. Fair skies. WB5MZO
Sent from my iPad
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:53:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bruce <kk5do@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD silent key
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<1379289197.54585.YahooMailNeo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
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sorry to hear. i still remember back in about 1972 getting an issue of byte
and seeing the imsai 8080 computer. i bought one and built it (a whopping 4
memory boards with 4 rows of 1k on each board... 16k memory...), still have
it. i also have the first 2 years of byte magazine missing about the first 3
or 4 issues. that was when they were folded and stapled in the seam. then
they went to telephone book style with glued spine. i enjoyed the new
technology back then as much as i do now. glad he brought it to us.
?
73...bruce
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:13:46 +0800 (SGT)
From: Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg@xxxxx.xx.xx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD silent key
Message-ID:
<1379322826.78703.YahooMailNeo@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Sorry to hear this , may his soul rest in peace. I enjoyed his articles in
older 73 magazine's.
?
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
From: Bruce <kk5do@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, 16 September 2013 5:23 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD silent key
sorry to hear. i still remember back in about 1972 getting an issue of byte
and seeing the imsai 8080 computer. i bought one and built it (a whopping 4
memory boards with 4 rows of 1k on each board... 16k memory...), still have
it. i also have the first 2 years of byte magazine missing about the first 3
or 4 issues. that was when they were folded and stapled in the seam. then
they went to telephone book style with glued spine. i enjoyed the new
technology back then as much as i do now. glad he brought it to us.
?
73...bruce
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:49:22 -0500
From: "Harvey N. Vordenbaum" <tower2@xxx.xx.xxx>
To: "'James R. La Frieda'" <lafrieda@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "'R Oler'"
<orbitjet@xxxxxxx.xxx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD , silent key, had a full, solid life and
then some !
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I remember his dust-up with the U.S. Navy in 1957(?) when he dared criticize
it in an editorial in CQ magazine for not letting his Ham representative
operate a ham station on the ship that was carrying the Ham to Antarctica as
part of the IGY. If I recall correctly, the Publisher of CQ had to
apologize to the Navy.
Harvey
K5HV
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of James R. La Frieda
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 4:25 PM
To: R Oler; amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD , silent key, had a full, solid life and then
some !
On 9/15/2013 9:21 AM, R Oler wrote:
> he lived a full and solid life, but his absence will be felt....for
> those who loved satellites during what is probably the golden era of
> hamsats. Wayne was a friend, as he was to so many pioneering
> technologies. Wayne Green. Fair skies. WB5MZO
>
> Sent from my iPad
> _______________________________________________
>
> Yes- Wayne-W2NSD- who passed away two days ago, at age 91, did indeed, as
you can observe below, lived a full solid life, and then some:
* started one of the first personal computer software companies
(Instant Software).
* opened computer software stores - eventually sold a national chain
of 58 stores.
* while in college started a broadcasting station (WRPI) which is now
the largest student activity.
* served on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Overseers
and RPI Council.
* served as the First Executive in Residence at RPI.
* served as a consultant for the RPI Business Incubator - which won
the 1996 prize as the best in the country.
* been a licensed amateur radio operator as W2NSD since 1940.
* pioneered amateur radio repeaters since 1969, starting with WRLAAB
on Mt. Monadnock NH.
* established amater radio in Jordan in 1970 and wrote their rules and
regulations.
* supplied and installed the first repeater in Jordan, J-Y73, in 1973.
* helped radio amateurs pioneer FM, radio Teletype, single sideband,
and slow scan TV.
* bounced amateur radio signals off the Moon from the big dish at the
Arecibo Observatory, PR.
* been editing and publishing amateur radio magazines for 47 years.
* a state-of-the-art digital recording studio.
* four record labels and produced over 150 CDs.
* helped re-popularize ragtime music and personally knows all of the
top ragtime performers.
* started 25 successful publications in the radio, computer and music
fields.
* published over 100 books.
* wrote one of the first books on digital communications.
* been on an African hunting safari.
* visited the ruins of Ba'albek in Lebanon, the Queen of Sheba's water
catchments in Aden.
* visited the Pyramids, the Sphynx. the ruins in Athens, the Taj Mahal
and Katmandu.
* visited the head-hunter longhouses in Sarawak.
* helped organize and lead trade groups of around 250 people to yearly
electronic shows in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
* given keynote addresses to radio, educational, computer, and music
conferences.
* helped invent a new kind of loud speaker - borrowed $1,000 on my car
to start a manufacturing company and within two and a half years it
became the largest speaker manufacturer in the country with seven
factories.
* performed in The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance in high school
* served as president of radio clubs in high school and college.
* served in Navy 1942-1946 in WWII - electronic technician on USS Drum
SS-228 (which is on display at Mobile, Alabama) for five war patrols.
* been a radio engineer and announcer in North Carolina, Florida and
Virginia.
* been chief cameraman at WPIX-TV (11) in NYC.
* produced and directed network TV shows in Dallas and Cleveland.
* a reputation as a gourmet cook.
* served as president of Porsche Club of America.
* raced my Porsche on the Nurburgring and Solitude race tracks in
Germany.
* both driven and navigated in many national SCCA car rallies.
* served as a founder and first secretary of American Mensa.
* a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science.
* lectured on entrepreneurialism at Yale, Boston University, Case
Western, Babson College, RPL and many other colleges.
* been on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and
New York in 1927.
* flown with father since 1922.
* served on the FCC's National Industry Advisory Committee (NIAC).
* served on the FCC's Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC).
* testified before a Congressional hearing on the music industry.
* had the usual toys: airplane, Porsche, yacht, Jaguar, Mercedes 600
Pullman limosine.
* worked on a Guggenheim grant on a color organ for the Guggenheim
Museum on 5th Avenue.
* graduated Bliss Electrical SchooL Tacoma Padc MD.
* attended Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco and
graduated as ETM2/c.
* served for five war patrols on SS-228 USS Dnun, made ETMI/c.
* taught electronics at Submarine School, New London CT.
* organized and run successful mail order Elm Stamp Company at age 12.
* sung in St. Pauls Church choir as boy soprano.
* sung in Philharmonic Choir of Brooklyn.
* sung in Erasmus High School Choral Club.
* pioneered the 6-meter ham band as the first New York City station on
that band.
* run a 6-meter beacon station for several years in cooperation with
the Radio Amateur Scientific Observations (RASO) program.
* for years had a VHF/UHF station on Mt. Monadnock NH; regularly heard
for over 600 miles.
* been Excutive Secretary of the Music Research Foundation, Madison
Avenue, N.Y.
* worked for GE as a test engineer on Army radio equipment.
* been an engineer at Airborne Instrument Laboratories in Mineola NY
developing radar equip.
* tried marijuana in 1948 to see what it was like.
* tried LSD in 1960 to see what that was like.
* drunk with shipmates on liberty while in the Navy. Have seldom drunk
since.
* tried smoking as a teenager, thought it was stupid. Ignored peer
pressure.
* know the real dope on Amelia Earhart's last trip.
* been convinced that NASA had to have faked all of the moon landings.
* driven from Brooklyn NY to Peterborough NH (250 miles), averaging
100 mph one night - including a gas stop.
* interesting friends such as Barry Goldwater, King Hussein, Steve
Jobs, Bill Gates, and Rod McKuen.
* been convinced that with proper nutrition and avoiding poisons we
can dependably live to over 100.
* ridden Starlit Night, the Ringling Brothers top show horse.
* a professorship of horsemanship and taught riding instructors.
* a Hubbard Dianetic Auditor certificate and has processed over 100
patients, with some remarkable successes.
* swum the three mile length of Coney Island many times.
* investigated crop circles and a UFO hovering over a house in nearby
Francestown, NH.
* drove a snowmobile 50 mph in the White Mountains of New Hampshire at
age 82.
* Other than all that I've been taking it easy and having a great time.
Like myself, he was from Brooklyn, and he came over one evening - at
the invitation of W2EEJ (Herb Greenberg, an engineer at WINS( 1010
KHz) ) and spoke with several of us at The Brooklyn
Radio Club - in 1955, when he was the Editor of CQ Magazine. At
that time, I was a 15 yr old Novice, KN2LKJ.
73's Jim (N6MV)
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:21:20 +0000
From: B J <va6bmj@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Details Of Upcoming Antares/Cygnus Mission
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http://www.americaspace.com/?p=42271
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:22:26 -0500
From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] EM61
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I plan to be on from EM60 or 61 maybe tonight, more certainly tomorrow
morning, on FO29. Look for me high in the passband.
73, Drew KO4MA
Sent from my iPhone
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