Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite tracking et al

[Emily Clarke <emily@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Diaz XE1MEX recently sent me a photograph of a color 
OscarLocator that surprised me because I'd only previously seen them 
in Black and White. I'd been looking to buy one for a bit, and Alex's 
photograph gave me the clue I needed.  In the past I was looking for 
OSCARLocator and never got any hits on eBay or Amazon.com, but from 
Alex's photograph I could see that it was actually part of a book 
called "Getting to Know OSCAR From the Ground Up" by Joel P. Kleinman 
(ed) published by the ARRL.

Knowing this I was able to find one at a used bookstore using 
ABEBooks.com and should have it shortly.  Since it will be mine (the 
other's I've seen were in the Project OSCAR archive) I am looking 
forward to the opportunity to actually play with and learn to use 
it.  It should be fun to demonstrate at presentations and hamfests.

73,

Emily


At 12:43 PM 1/18/2006, you wrote:
>After reading all these posts about "easy-sats", computer tracking 
>and auto Doppler correction, I thought I'd dig out some of the old 
>stuff. So i dug out my 1990 copy of " The Satellite Experimenters 
>Handbook ", looked up Appendix C-1, 'Tracking Data and Overlays'.... 
>It looked like double-dutch, I've forgotten how to fabricate and use 
>the Oscar-Locator!. I always seemed to be able to find AO-7 in its 
>heyday ( first time round ) but I shudder to think how long I used 
>to spend, working out when the next usable window would be. Todays 
>pace of life just doesn't seem to have a time slot available to do 
>all these 'computer' things that we now now take for granted, that 
>we now call " Computer Station Control"... Even the Log-Book was 
>paper and pen...
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