[amsat-bb] Re: Radio Amateurs supporting a mission in space (video)

[Joe]

Very Nice Video Henk. It was fun and interesting to have participated
in supplying data. I will forward this along to a few who wonder
what all this aluminum if for in my field.
73,
Joe
KI4TZ

Henk, PA3GUO wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Very often I find it difficult to explain to 'outsiders' what HAM radio is all about.
>
> Therefore I have released a short video on YouTube about the recent ANDE-2
> experiments and how radio amateurs world-wide contributed to this mission.
>
> When I was young I watched the first Space Shuttle flight on TV. A far away,
> fantastic scientific event. Many years later we as radio amateurs are given
> opportunities to engage directly in space-experiments. It's a thrill !
>
> Featured in the video are the launch and deploy from STS-127, as well as
> reception and decoding of the satellite's radio signals received from space.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvRnqII0j8
> For highest quality ensure you enable HD (it does slow-down the download a bit though)
>
> Best regards,
> Henk, PA3GUO
>
>
>
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