[amsat-bb] 1957

[k6vug at sbcglobal.net]

Well said Bob K8BL.
While the why and how they stay up there IS amazing, I continue to be totally in awe by how we can communicate with/thru them from so far and with a hand-held/qrp, almost full quieting !! 
 
73! 
Umesh 
K6VUG 



    On Thursday, October 4, 2018, 4:21:17 PM PDT, R.T.Liddy <k8bl at ameritech.net> wrote:  
 
 Bob,

I remember it. Was in Jr. HS and the Science Teacher
explained the whole concept of it to our class and I
was awed by how it could just stay up there and not
fall down.

Now, we just take satellites for granted. We think nothing
of picking up a handheld XCVR and talking to folks halfway
across the country through one of them hurtling through
the sky above.  WOW!!

73,    Bob  K8BL



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From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd at comcast.net>
To: amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org> 
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 6:59 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] 1957



This day (10/4) in 1957 the first satellite was put in orbit by the Russians.  Many of us remember it!  The rest is history.


73 Bob W7LRD

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