Archive - Oct 2002
October 1st
Visual contact at South Carolina Wings Weekend - Sep. 28, 2002
Submitted by KD4SFF
Hi All
I attended the South Carolina Wings Weekend held at the Greenville downtown airport, which I assisted with an amateur radio display.
The guest speaker at Saturdays evenings Wings dinner was South Carolina astronaut / ISS Expedition 3 Cmdr Frank Culbertson Jr.
IK1SLD – Tue, 2002 – 10 – 01 12:22
September 30th
ISS Packet Freq. this night Oct. 01, 2002-01:25 UTC
Hello, only to advise that this night packet system was active but uplink frequency was on 145.200 MHz.
IK1SLD – Tue, 2002 – 10 – 01 03:45
oscar-7 keeps on keepin on(CQsept2002)
"AMSAT-OSCAR 7, the amateur satellite launched in 1974 suddenly came back on the air this summer after two decades of silence. Command operator Mike Seguin,nijez, reports success in sending various commands to the satellite; and slow scan enthusiasts have been exchanging sstv pics viaAO-7.
Some photos posted on the CQ web site."
kc8fks – Tue, 2002 – 10 – 01 00:57