[meteorite-list] Re make your own Meteorite

From: countdeiro at earthlink.net <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:57:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Message-ID: <4745410.1249369055052.JavaMail.root_at_elwamui-mouette.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

-.-- --.- -.-- --.-
.-. .-.. --... -.. -. .--
. .. .
-.- .- --... .--. .-- .

CQ CQ CQ
KL7GNW
FROM
KA7PWE

SEEING AS WERE BOTH OLD HAMS WE MIGHT AS WELL LOG A QSL. MY BIGGEST THRILL WAS WORKING 40 METER CODE (200 WATTS FROM AN 80' YAGI) AND PICKING UP THE ELECTRONIC WARFARE OFFICER ON A "BOOMER" FIVE DAYS OUT OF PEARL. HE SENT A GREAT CARD, BUT NO NAME ON THE SUB. DID "WAS" IN CODE AND IT TOOK ME 15 YEARS. WENT SILENT NEARLY TWENTY YEARS AGO AND NOW IT'S METRORITES ONLY...

SEVENS AND THREES ... .-. .- --... .--. .-- .



-----Original Message-----
>From: Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net>
>Sent: Aug 3, 2009 9:33 PM
>To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Re make your own Meteorite
>
>List,
>Having been active in ham radio from almost the beguiling
>of the Amateur radio during the hey day of AMSAT-OSCAR
>program, I can tell you that the thrill of hearing your own return
>signal from the bird is a thrill every time you do it. It never ceased
>to get my heartbeat up 10 points.
>I ran the astounding power out into a ground plain antenna of 10 whole watts
>on the two meter uplink and with the down link on the 10 meter band.
>My very first contact was on AO6, otherwise called OSCAR 6 to JA1JRK
>in Japan while I was in Anchorage, Alaska. We had all of about 6 minutes of
>mutual access to the bird.
>I didn't see how I might become an astronaught, so this was the next best
>thing.
>My best contact was when I visited a friend's Shack. He was into moonbounce.
>This is where you transmit a 70 cm SSB signal into a 24 foot dish aimed at
>the moon
>and you heard your return 2.4 seconds later. It always gave me the willies
>because
>the signal had a warble to it that was unreal.
>I did some work when AO7 was launched. If the two birds were spaced just
>right,
>you could uplink on AO6 and AO7 would get the downlink and retransmit on
>it's
>downlink. This would allow you a much further distance to talk that either
>one alone.
>One mystery did crop up. There was an occasion of a reverse doplar.
>I never got to hear it directly, but I listened to the recorded tapes of the
>inverted
>dopplar. When the train approaches the whistle rises in pitch and as it
>departs, the whistle lowers in pitch. The same applies to a radio wave, but
>as the bird made a south to north pass over (get ready for it) the Bermuda
>triangle. the doplar was inverted no less than 7 or 8 passes during several
>days.. The cause was never identified.
>THAT was creepy.
>Ah, the good ol' days.
>It's late so I'll save another adventure re AO7's death and resurection 20
>plus years later for retelling then.
>73's de Pete KL7GNW-IMCA 1733
>
>______________________________________________
>http://www.meteoritecentral.com
>Meteorite-list mailing list
>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Received on Tue 04 Aug 2009 02:57:34 AM PDT