I was all of 6 years old. My only memory was of walking in the streets with familiy members and the adults talking about "Sputnik" and looking up towards the sky.
On 10/1/07, Jerry W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)
