[amsat-bb] Did you work OSCAR-III?

[Emily Clarke <w0eec@xxxxxxxxx>]

Recently Project OSCAR - the original Amateur Satellite radio club in 
Silicon Valley - acquired a large amount of archival materials that we are 
now cataloging.  As we do, we will present as much of the collection online 
as space and time permits.

Next March will mark the 40th anniversary of the launch of OSCAR III - the 
first Amateur satellite that relayed communications back to earth.  So it 
is only fitting that our first converted document consists of the list of 
two-way contacts reported by users of OSCAR-III.  Although there is no way 
we can track down all of the stations there were a few callsigns some of us 
recognized.  Perhaps you will too!

If you were a user of OSCAR-III, or if perhaps you are nostalgic for the 
days when both uplinks and downlinks were in-band on 2 meters, please visit 
our online archive.  It's just getting started but we have some interesting 
ephemera to share with the satellite community as time permits us to 
archive it.  We even have the OSCAR-III backup (yes! two were built!)

You can find the archive at:
http://www.projectoscar.net/archive.php



73,

Emily

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