[amsat-bb] Karl Janskey call sign

[Jim JIpping]

Thanks, Kevin!   You absolutely correct,  W9GFZ is the call and the club 
is in Socorro, NM.  When I was at Green Bank for the dedication of the 
GBT, I was on the understanding the group at GB had the call. BUT the 
NRAO is more than just GB.  I had a very nice personal guided tour of 
Socorro by one of the hams on staff there.  It was arranged by a good 
friend, Dr. Paul Vanden Bout, the then director of the NRAO. Paul and I 
both graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. I remember well 
the whole day I spent on site at the VLA.

I was allowed to take several high school student to GB to use the 40 ft 
instructional telescope and learn about radio astronomy. We stayed in 
the dorm and had three activity filled days at the facility. I did this 
three years running.  What an experience! That was REAL science!

As a physics teacher, I have to say that my experience at Green Bank and 
several  tours of observatories across the US I was privileged to take 
completely changed my perception of science and the scientific method.

Any way, thanks for the correction.  I noticed the typo and was 
preparing to correct it  and, then, saw your post

Jim Jipping, W8MRR, AMSAT 5512

On 4/30/2019 6:09 PM, Kevin M wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>
> If you will forgive the correction, Reber's callsign was W9GFZ. And 
> while it may be the same club in both places, the call is assigned to 
> the club's address at the observatory in Socorro NM, not WV. (And 
> that's PO Box 'O'... not PO Box 'zero' for anyone wondering like I did.)
>