For all you "old timers" The 50th anniversary of Sputnik is coming up on October 6, 2007. There are a lot of posts on the web and blogs, one web site being: www.arrl.org about Sputnik. Copied Sputnik on my Hallcafters S-38 E just before I went to radio school at Keesler AFB. At Keesler they had a tracking antenna that was configured like a Yagi, it was laid out on the ground for satellite tracking.
Does any know the HF frequency that was used by the first Mercury-Atlas missions? Was working at KSTP Television as a radio dispatcher for news and photo crews on the first few Mercury-Atlas missions. One of the engineers found the frequency and went to the engineering lab to listen. Then the second Mercury mission copied the down link some where on HF with my Hallcafters SX-99 receiver. Jerry - K0HZI
