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05/11/2011 | OSCAR I and Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years
1961. It was the middle of the Cold War. John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. The Bay of Pigs invasion fails in Cuba. The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. Freedom Riders are arrested
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03/16/2011 | Hams Invited to Track Satellites
In November 2010, five research satellites were carried to orbit aboard a Minotaur V rocket from Kodiak Island, Alaska. Two of these satellites -- FASTRAC 1, known as “Sara Lily” and FASTRAC 2, referred to as “Emma” -- entered orbit as a single nanosatell
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01/28/2011 | ARISSat-1 Blasts Off
The new AMSAT ARISSat-1 satellite is on its way to the International Space Station
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11/20/2010 | Hams Invited to Listen for New Satellites
Amateurs have an opportunity to monitor three new research satellites.
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07/31/2010 | It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane! No, It’s an Asteroid -- Asteroid (31531) ARRL, To Be Exact!
John, Paul, George and Ringo are on the list. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms -- even Frank Zappa and Elvis (but not Madonna). Of course Asimov and Sagan made the cut, Mr Spock, too, but not Captain Kirk. And now ARRL -- more precisely, (31531) ARRL --
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11/30/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Our exciting period of nearly daily sunspot activity ended with the first spotless day on November 23 and the Sun has been blank since then. A look at the STEREO image shows a bright active area, perhaps five days over the eastern horizon, but we don't kn
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11/12/2008 | Satellite Serving as Voice Repeater Expected to Go QRT by End of Year
Launched in January 1990, AMSAT-OSCAR 16 (AO-16) -- a digital satellite -- has been operating as a voice repeater since January 2008, using FM voice on the uplink and transmitting DSB voice on the downlink (best received on SSB). But according to the sate
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