TUNE-UP CLINIC SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 30
The fifth annual JPL ARC VHF-UHF Tune-up
Clinic will be held on Saturday, January 30, 1982 to enable our members to
maintain their VHF and UHF equipment in tip-top shape. As he has done for
five years now, Miguel Santana, WB6TEB, will provide the professional test
equipment to check frequency, deviation, power output, touch tones and possibly
spectrum for spurious outputs. All VHF and UHF rigs can be checked. Bring your
rig and it's service notes, including schematics and locations of all trimmers.
Also, please have a list of each unit's channels vs. frequencies for frequency
checking. While repairs are not the intent of the clinic, some tools will be
available for you to "do your own", if necessary, and have the unit
rechecked before you leave.
The clinic will be located at Miguel's house, 1050
Monte Verde Drive, Arcadia. Take the 210 Fwy to the Michillinda exit in
Arcadia; go east from Michillinda one block on Colorado Blvd. to Altura, then
south on Altura to the first stop sign which is Monte Verde. Miguel is on the
corner. Talk-in will be available on W6VIO/R, 224.04, and on 223.5 MHz
simplex.
Even if you think your rig is working great, a check
is worthwhile. Crystals age, microphones deteriorate and “home-brew”
adjustments are next to impossible without the right equipment. And, as it has
turned out for the past 5 years, it affords us all the chance to meet and chat
over coffee and donuts. Don’t miss this opportunity! (Merv - N6NO)
Officers will be officially installed at the regular
January club meeting (January 13th.)
An election was recently held for the Office of Vice
President. At the election meeting in December, the name of Stan Brokl, N2YQ,
was placed in nomination from the floor, requiring per the By‑Laws, that
mail ballots be sent out. The results of the election were:
Art Zygielbaum 61
Stan Brokl 30
An impressive 58% of the eligible club members
voted. Congratulations to new Board. (Stan - N6MP)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Eileen,
Even though it stated in the newsletter that the
"editorial section" expresses the opinions of the author and not
those of the Club, I thought I should take some time and write about Merv's
timely opinion on the Frequency Coordination Board at the SMA, specially since
it followed my article on that same organization. The poor choice of words to
describe what in my opinion has been an unwilling mistake, and a first one at
that, and not "incredible display of incompetence" is what is most
disheartening. As I mentioned in my article we at the SMA have coordinated 90+
repeater pairs and many more services, all within the limited spectrum
available to us. As far as thorough investigations prior to frequency
coordination, the Board within it's limited human resources explores all
apparent viable alternatives, including propagation tests. Myself as trustee of
WB6QWR/R on 224.88 MHz, spent many cold nights and hot summer days performing
propagation tests with members of the Board for nearly a year before a suitable
co‑channel was found. Why a verbal agreement was given to KQ6P is beyond
me, but that will soon come to light. There is always a first mistake and I am
sorry it had to be our club the one affected. Again I grant Merv that the
choice for co‑channeling is a poor one. I can vouch for that. As far as I
know there are two of us who live in an area where both repeaters are heard
40+. If you think you have problems, try using the autopatch on the 91 or 605
Freeways South of the Santa Ana. So, if anyone is to be outraged it's John
McKinney and myself.
On the other hand, and not to change the subject,
when Walt (WA6PEA) was a member of the Board, our Club had a representative
within the Coordination Committee. Walt's term expired last October. For three
weeks I announced on the Tuesday Net that the October Meeting of the SMA was to
be held at JPL and that there would be elections for the Coordination Board
Position #7. On the date of the meeting only 3 JPL'ers showed up. Two of the
three had to be there. One, Jay (W6EJJ) as ARRL Director and myself as
President of the SMA. So, in fact, only George Morris (W6ABW) was there from
the Club. Art Zygielbaum (W6SAL) was nominated, in absentia as a candidate to
replace Walt (who did not wish to be reelected or be at least a candidate) but
there were no JPL'ers there to support Art's candidacy. I do not mean to imply
that in order to "protect" your frequency a member has to have
"connections" or representatives within the Board, but if the matter
comes to discussion it sure helps to have someone to represent your interests
and explain to the other members certain technical problems that they might not
be aware of. Not only that but during the general membership meetings, the
Coordination Board activities are read and matters of possible interference can
be brought up to the Board's attention.
As for the January meeting, which by the way is the
23rd. of January and not the 16th. as Merv points out, the whole Board of
Officers and one Coordination Board member (Position #2 now held by Al Acken
WA6KMQ) will be up for reelection or removal. This is the time to express
yourself.
Sometimes a crisis is required for the awakening of
the dormant. If you think you can do a better job, go ahead, volunteer. I'll
guarantee you will learn a lot and appreciate the efforts of others to maintain
the 220 band as the most professional one of the ham bands. 73's. (Randy
WB6QWR)
Another note received by the Editor -
FEEDBACK - In N6NO's editorial on the problem
of visitors sharing the closed repeater channel, he mistakenly indicated the
date of the next SMA meeting to be January 16th. While this would normally be
the correct date, the SMA was unable schedule the meeting room, forcing a
postponement of the meeting to January 23rd. PLEASE TAKE NOTE!
This note was not signed but it's being printed as
an explanation as to why the date was wrong in Merv' 5 editorial. Please be advised that in the future any and
all notes or letters to the editor must be signed before being printed. You can
disagree with anything that is said in VIO CALLING and let me know - but -
if you don't have the courage of your convictions and SIGN your letter -
don't waste your time or your stamp as it won't be printed. Eileen - KA6DGV
STATUS OF VOYAGER II SATURN QSL CARDS
Many of you have no doubt been asked by other
amateurs what has happened to the QSL cards from the August Voyager II Saturn
Encounter. Here is a brief explanation. As in previous Commemoratives, the Club
plans to send out a full-color picture QSL. Most people do not appreciate
all the work that is entailed in a project of this sort. Besides the card
design (carried out this time by Mimi Stapleton) the production of the card
involves a complex series of steps involving lay-out and typesetting. All
of this must go through the JPL Graphics and Photo Departments on a shoe-string
budget. This means that such jobs are last on the priority list and involve
much pleading and arm-twisting by the Club. The actual print job is done on
the outside and JPL Regulations require that competitive bids be acquired. All
this results in lengthy delays and much frustration. However, the cards that
have been produced in the past have all been worth the wait, as anyone will
say. The commitment to produce a high-quality card is part of the reason
that the last Voyager Commemorative resulted in a record-high 12,000
QSO's. The card we produce for this event will, in all respects, be as good or
better than the last.
At this writing (early January), the QSL has been
designed, laid out and typeset, and should be ready to go out to the printer in
a week or so. The finished cards should be delivered in early to mid-February.
At this time we will be calling upon many of you, as in previous years, to fill
in the many hundreds of cards which need to be mailed. So tell your anxious
friends to hang in there just a little longer; they'll be glad they did! (Stan N6MP)
MINUTES OF JPL ARC BOARD MEETING
Main topics
of discussion were current budget problems and the planning of next year's
budget. The subject of JPL Tours was brought up by Jay W6EJJ. He stated that
the Assoc. Amateurs of Long Beach would like a tour of JPL He suggested that
the Club needed a way to accommodate tours for groups of radio amateurs. Attendees
for meeting were: Warren K6GPK, Merv N6NO. Jay W6EJJ, John N6AVW, George W6ABW,
Stan N6MP, Sam WB6EMO, Ron W6TUZ, & Art WA6SAL. Nov mtg (Art - WA6SAL)
ARRL NOTES
PLAIN LANGUAGE IS DEAD! - In case you haven't
already heard, the FCC's so-called "Plain Language" proposal to
rewrite the amateur regulations, PR Docket 80-729, was terminated without
action at a Commission meeting on November 11th. The Commission received over
1200 written comments on this proposal, and they were overwhelmingly negative.
This is a case where the amateur community, both
individually and through the League, spoke up loudly - and we were heard!
Our thanks to the many amateurs who took the time to communicate their concerns
over this proposal to the FCC. We need your continued interest and support as
we work to promote legislation favorable to Amateur Radio and attempt to deal
with the problems facing our service today.
AMATEUR RADIO LEGISLATION IN 1982? - The
Goldwater Bill, S.929, has already passed the Senate. At hearings on November
18, the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and
Finance, considered legislation which would affect the Amateur Radio Service.
At this session, Reps. Wirth and Swift introduced their own bill to amend the
Communications Act of 1934. It is H.R. 5008, the "Communications Technical
Amendments Act of 1981". In matters affecting Amateur Radio the bill
would:
1. Authorize FCC to utilize volunteers to monitor
rules violations and to administer examinations.
2. Exempt certain Amateur Radio transmissions from
the secrecy provisions of Sec. 605 of the Communications Act.
3. Authorize FCC to issue amateur licenses good for
a period of ten years.
4. Allow sponsors of Amateur Radio conventions and
other meetings to reimburse FCC personnel for expenses connected with
administering license examinations or otherwise participating in the meeting.
This bill essentially contains all of the Amateur
Radio‑related provisions of the Goldwater Bill except for the one
allowing FCC to set minimum standards for interference rejection by home
entertainment devices. Item 4 above is a new item not contained in S.929.
Please write or wire your congressman in support of
the Amateur Radio provisions of H.R. 5008 and urge him to also support the RFI
provisions in the Goldwater Bill. A suggested message is as follows:
"I strongly urge you to support all Amateur
Radio provisions of H.R. 5008. In addition, FCC authority to set interference
rejection standards as provided in the Goldwater Bill, S.929, is vitally important
to consumers."
Use your own words, but please write your own
congressman and also Subcommittee Chairman Timothy E. Wirth. Inputs to the two
California congressmen on the Subcommittee (Carlos J. Moorhead and Henry A.
Waxman) by amateurs living in their districts would be especially helpful.
Help make 1982 the year that we get an Amateur Radio
bill through Congress!
ARRL REORGANIZATION PROPOSALS - The ARRL Long‑Range
Planning Committee's Phase 2 Report
is summarized in QST for December 1981. Please take a few minutes to read these
important proposals. I will be attending a meeting of the LRPC on February 6th.
and would appreciate receiving any comments you may have. I'm particularly
anxious to get reaction to the proposals for strengthening the organization at
the Section level and for creating a new class of club affiliation. Please let
me hear from you before I have to vote on these issues! May the year 1982 be a
happy and prosperous one for you. 73's.
(Jay - W6EJJ)
I've asked
Jay to write an ARRL Column every 3 months to keep you posted on ARRL news items that are of
interest to you. Hopefully this will promote a better understanding of what the
ARRL is doing and will also provide the information needed by you to get
involved in current proposals.
Hopefully
Stan N2YQ will also provide a column posting us on local ARRL items. -- (Eileen --
KA6DGV)
HELP FLY AN EXPERIMENT ON THE SHUTTLE
JPL hams! We need your help! The JPL Explorer Post
has the chance to fly an experiment on the Shuttle. TRW has donated a Get Away
Special payload to the National Explorer Organization, and we are one of
thirteen posts selected from the first round of competition to submit a second
detailed proposal.
We are planning an experiment to measure the density
of the ionosphere, using a dual frequency transmitter at about 144 and 432 MHz
on the Shuttle, and a tracking station on the ground at JPL. We are working
with scientists active in ionospheric studies, and we hope to make a genuine
scientific contribution, as well as have some fun. We need advisors who can
help us design, build, test and fly transmitters, receivers, antennas,
computers and power supplies.
The Post members are bright high school and college
students who have a strong interest in space and lots of enthusiasm, but they
need advisors with practical experience to guide them. We would like to invite
interested hams - and others - to help us.
Our second proposal is due February 28th. We're
building breadboards now, and plan to fly them on a balloon in mid January, so
we can use help right away. If you are interested, please contact Peter Mason,
N6BBP, at M/S 179-122, or phone X4056, or 794-2200. (Peter - N6BBP)
RON ZENONE - W6TUZ - LEAVES JPL
The Club will be losing an active and enthusiastic
member soon when Ron Zenone, W6TUZ, starts his new position at Aerojet in
Azusa. Ron has served on the Club's Board for several years, holding the
positions of Secretary and, most recently, Vice President. As QSL Manager for
the Club, he had the awesome responsibility of organizing the QSL response
effort for the recent Voyager Commemoratives. This was a job which took
countless hours and a willingness to forego most of his office floor space to
accommodate cardboard boxes filled with QSL's. Ron, best of luck in your new
job and don't forget to keep in touch! (Stan - N6MP) Not only will Ron be missed but also
his wife Pat. Pat worked hard at the Club Hot Dog Booth each year.
HOW'S DX?
The CQ CW Contest was lots of fun with a number of
new countries on CW being available for the skillful/lucky.
The operation in "Sovereign Military Order of
Malta" IA0KM unfortunately eluded my efforts - although he was
active. I didn't hear him (sob!). The following information was excerpted from
my most recent set of bulletins:
Bouvet - Forget it! They were delayed year due
to financial difficulties.
Albania - Delayed until January‑April
timeframe.
Monaco -- - PA0VDV and some fellow
Dutch amateurs operated /3A in this somewhat location from 24 Dec - 2
Jan.
Iraq - YI1AS is active primarily on list operations
and expects to be there for about 2 years. The only frequency/time known is
28740‑760 at 1200Z a tad early for the W6's.
Taiwan - In addition to regular activities on
10 & 20 meters, Tim is now allowed to work 15 meters. Look for him on CW on
21029 at 0030Z and also on SSB on 21270 & 21315.
Crozet - FB8WG was expected to become more
active again between Christmas and New Year's. This was primarily a
"list" operation at 14225 in the 1200-160OZ time frame. This is
one of the 12 countries I still need on SSB!
Swaziland - W6YB/3D6 was expected to be active
from 24-31 December.
Angola - OK3TAB/DZ will put Angola on the air
from 3 January through 1 April.
Good hunting! Hope you had a Merry Christmas and
that you'll have a Prosperous DX New Year. (Bob
– N6ET)
AGENDA
FOR JANUARY MEETING
Big things are planned for the January Meeting to be
held on Wednesday, January 13th., at Noon in 238-543, as usual. The
January meeting is traditionally when the new officers are installed. Be sure
to come and get to know the faces you will be complaining to for the next year!
And now to our guest speaker, who will be Jan
Moller. K6FM. Jan wrote an article recently in Pam Radio describing the new
technical specifications for receivers, which allow us to characterize a
receiver far better than the old "sensitivity" and
"selectivity" specs we have used for years. He will explain what is
meant by "Dynamic range", "Third-order intercept
point", "Noise floor", and other terms that are just beginning
to appear in the ham literature and advertisements. Jan works for Litton
Command Systems and has had lots of experience analyzing communication systems
and specifying receiver characteristics for military systems. I am sure you
will enjoy this educational talk - see you there! (Merv - N6NO)
W6VIO
CALLING CLASSIFIED SECTION
Instruction Manual and Tune-up information for
the ICOM IC230 Wanted. Please contact George Aumann, KE6FE, X4457.
UPGRADE CLASSES
The Education Committee announces the start of the
Spring Upgrade Classes on Tuesday, January 19, 1982 at 12 NOON in Conference
Room 238-543.
Classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday
thereafter for 8 to 10 weeks.
The first half-hour will be devoted to code
lessons (starting at about 5 WPM) with the second half-hour being devoted
to study material. Nucleus of the group will be the 16 new Novices from the
Fall series, however, any and all Novice/Technician Licensees are welcome.
The material will cover both the General and
Advanced Class licenses. If there is sufficient interest, consideration will be
given to conducting later follow-on sessions for Extra Class. Classes are
open to JPL employees, contractors and their family members. Club membership is
desirable, but not mandatory. (John N6UK
and Paul K06D)
BIG BROTHERS WANTED
The fall Novice Class has produced a "bumper
crop" of new hams and club members. To date sixteen (16) have taken their
tests and are anxiously awaiting their licenses from the FCC. Hopefully a few
more will pass the code in January to swell the ranks further. The new Novices
will need some help getting started: everything from advice on selecting their
first rig - all the way through to making their first contacts. That's
where you Club Regulars come-in by signing up to be a Big Brother to one
or more of the new Novices. We need several Big Brothers each for the La Canada
and Pasadena areas, plus one each from Cerritos, Claremont, Los Angeles, San
Gabriel and Whittier. Please volunteer. Contact John Walsh (N6UK) X3303 or Paul
Goodwin (K06D) X4820. (Paul
K06D)
NEWS OF NOTE FROM FELLOW CLUBS
The TRW ARC Swapmeet begins at 8 AM and closes at 11
AM on the LAST SATURDAY of the month. Attendees have misused these starting and
stopping times in the past - but they will be enforced in the future. The
swap meet is admission-free and is being held for the enjoyment of the LA
Amateur Community. The TRW members donate their time to make it nice for
everyone, so please help by bending down and picking up any litter that you see
and putting it in the trash cans that they provide. It will help them keep the
area looking nice and bending down will help keep YOU looking nice. Thank you
TRW ARC for all your efforts.
The Lockheed ARC - W6LS will conduct a sale of
CQ, Ham Radio, (QST, and 73 (only) magazines Saturday 16 January 1982. Issues
will sell at ten cents each (no limit) from 10 AM to 4 FM at 2814 Empire in
Burbank. Also W6LS has beautiful Amateur radio wall calendars for sale -
details can be obtained by dropping a note to W6LS 2814 Empire Avenue, Burbank,
CA 91504.
OSCAR - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
In celebration of the 20th. Anniversary of the first
OSCAR, the Principal speaker at our December Meeting was Admiral Ray Meyers (USN, Ret.) - W6MLZ. His talk was on the beginnings of Project OSCAR and
how a launch opportunity was found for OSCAR I in 1961. OSCAR is the Acronym
for Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio.
Ray has been a ham since 1910. At the 1980 ARRL
Southwest Division Convention he was presented with a special award to
celebrate his seventy years as a ham.
After retirement from the Navy he was involved in
many facets of ham radio. At the time of the initial proposals for an amateur
satellite beacon Ray was the ARRL Southwest Division Director.
Together with Dr. Henry Richter, W6VZA then of JPL's
Instrumentation Section and others such as Chuck Towns K6LFH and Henry Hicks traveled
to Washington and got the Air Force brass to agree to let them
replace ballast on the Discoverer 36 with an amateur satellite beacon package.
If the group would be able to find support of an American group such as ARRL,
the Air Force would agree. The support was obtained and the rest is history.
Up until 2 years ago Ray wrote a Ham Radio column in
the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
Also at the meeting W6EJJ, Jay Holladay made a pitch
for JPL amateurs' and any others' participation in the Project Syncart which is
a joint venture of the Project OSCAR, AMSAT and AMSAT Canada to put an amateur
transponder package aboard a geosynchronous orbiting satellite.
K6PGX gave some details about listening to UOSAT
(OSCAR 9) which you can hear on your handhelds at 145.825 MHz sometime between
2:00 and 5:00 PM every afternoon and same in the morning. Two or three passes
will occur each day and night. The signals being heard currently are ASCII,
RTTY, CW, sometimes a continuous tone and sometimes the "Digitalker".
The Spacecraft is expected, when fully stabilized, to produce a CCD image with
a slow scan 256x256 pixel rate and a frame rate of 30 seconds. There are 64 gray
levels possible and the lens is pointing at the sub satellite point to
give images of the earth and/or cloud cover beneath it.
Sometime at the beginning of this year it is
expected that all of the engineering tests will be completed and that the
various experiments can begin on a regular schedule. UOSAT OSCAR-9 is a
downlink only transmitter. In addition to the 145.825 beacon,
there will be beacons at 7050 KHz, 14.001 MHz, 21.001 MHz, and 28.651 MHz (FM).
The 7, 14 and 21 MHz transmitters will all be phase
locked to the 7050 frequency for propagation and ionospheric delay
measurements. Other beacons will be transmitting on 70 cm, 23 cm and 3 cm. (Norm - K6PGX)
Dec. 8th., 1981
Norm, Here's the copy I promised you. Thanks for the luncheon, I appreciated the hospitality very much.
73, Ray Meyers
At
2040 GMT Dec. 12, 1961 OSCAR‑1 W6EE/S was launched into space aboard an
AGENA-B Satellite aboard an AF Discoverer [mission] and within minutes OSCAR-1 started
sending out the signal "HI" on 144.98 Mcs for the whole world to
hear.
It
all started by an article which appeared in CO Magazine around 1958/59 by Don
Stoner - W6TNS who wrote a Such Rogers yarn about an amateur satellite in
which lie wound up his story with 'Ale tee need is a missile. '
At
the time, I was Manager of Radio Operations for Lockheed Aircraft Co. and one
of my operators at Palmdale teas Fred Hicks - W6EJU. Fred was excited
about Don's article and suggested to me that tee do something about it for
Amateur Radio.
At
the time, I was FCC's Representative for Amateur Radio on it's National Industry
Advisory Committee. On a trip to Washington I mentioned the possibility of an
Amateur Satellite to FCC and was informed that the State Department had
jurisdiction of all communication devices in Space by U.S. sponsors. With this
information at hand I contacted Dick Black, a fellow amateur at the State Dept.
and he said State would have no objection suggesting that I contact the Air Force to see what were chances of riding
piggyback on one of it's satellites.
First
I contacted Col. Steve Cerwin USA K6OJO, who at the time was Chief, Plans and
Policy Div. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). He thought it a great idea and he
contacted the late MGen James Dreyfus USA - WA2WBE who went to bat for us
with members of JCS and they all agreed it was a good idea and they authorized
the Air Force to assist us in the project.
With
this information at hand I informed Fred of results and also ARRL with
information that the authority was granted provided it was for the benefit of
all Radio Amateurs. Things began to hum. A committee was formed to be known as
the OSCAR Committee consisting of Fred, my Sunnyvale Supervisor - B.B. Barrick W6OON, Bill Orr -
W6SAI, Chuck Towne - K6LFH, Harley Garielson - W6HEK, Tom Lott - VE2AGF,
Dick Esneault - W4LK, Harry Workman - K6JJC, Nick Corsier -
W6IGE, Stanenson - K6CBK, Jerre Crosier - W6IGE, Harry Enright -
W6HC, and M.K. Caston - WA6MSO, Nick Marshall - W6OLO and Don
Stoner. By that time I had transferred Fred to Sunnyvale from Palmdale. (W6HEK
is Gabrielson)
Next
step was to come up with specifications of the package we wanted to get in
space. Fred Hicks , Doc Henry Richter - W6VZA and I got together on what
was needed and Doc drafted a beautiful presentation and we took it back to
Washington as requested by Gen. Dreyfus, JCS Air Force representative, then
approved of the presentation and notified Vandenberg AFB to provide us with
space aboard an upcoming AGENA-B based on package specifications that
would be prepared by the OSCAR Committee based on Don Stoner's design.
The
rest is history. I became Southwestern Div. Director for ARRL and invited
President Dosland – W0TSN to be my guest to Vandenberg AFB Officer's Club and
we were joined by Lt. Gen Francis (Butch) Griswold USAF - K3RBA (now
K0DWC) Vice Cmdr SAC under Gen. Curtis LeMay, another Amateur, Capt Turner USAF
and Chuck Towne - K6LFH who kept in touch with OSCAR Control Station
WA6GFV. This was the first time I had seen Butch Griswold since he flew me out
from Washington after an Armed Forces Communications Ass'n. meeting we both
attended.
Much
credit goes to Chuck Towne and Fred Hicks who promoted material for the
construction of OSCAR. Though ok Lockheed President gave us his blessings construction cost the Amateur
fraternity nothing for labor or materials.
The
gang at Lockheed and members of the OSCAR Committee did the work. The batteries
were furnished by Burgess Battery, Transistors by Fairchild Transistor Co.,
Philco Co., PCS, Diodes Inc. and Pacific Semiconductors, Inc. Crystals
furnished by XpTron, Inc. and Midland Crystal Co.
Art
Diem - W3LSZ, a project Engineer, designed the RF Assembly, Harry Hugh
worked out the ideas and surmounted the problems of the code generator, Gad
Gangwish and Doug Beck - WA6AAL packaged the keyer assembly into shape
for the launching.
Components
and materials not mentioned above plus laboratory and testing facilities were
made available by Philco Corp., Western Development Labs at Palo Alto and the
Lockheed Missile Division at Et Monte.
Antenna
work was done by C.A. Andrews - W6LHV and Jim Daly. Wallyaven - WA6AID
and Jim Barnett were consultants on mounting and heating problems. Howard
Linnenkoht - K6SSD designed the contain". Walter Read - W6ASH got
it built based on drafting and layout by Orv Datton - K6UEY. Herman Poole
designed. and built a second transmitter that served as a standby unit. Alf
Modine and Will Jensby wrote the test procedures. All this should give you some
idea as to the many helping hands we had for the project and obviously I may
have omitted a few names that should have been given credit for work performed.
Modine's call was K6TWF.
ARRL
had appointed me as League Coordinator for OSCAR Program which I considered an
honor. On June 1, 1962, OSCAR-11 was launched into space as a sort of
tribute to thousands of amateurs gathered at Disneyland for the ARRL
Southwestern Division Convention that year.
It was nice meeting with You folks and thanks for the hospitality. Ray Meyers - W6MLZ
