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How I got into the "Satellite Scene" - please contribute your own experiences!
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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 904928" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>Humm how did I get into satellite ??</p><p></p><p>Let me think back about a half a century or more to when the Russians launched "Sputnik", learning that they had a transmitter on board and it was sending out beeps as it went over, I patched together a receiver (after blowing several house fuses) from some old army radio gear I found in my Uncles basement and a steerable (by hand) yagi, I listened in on 40.002 MHz as I saw it come over the horizon.</p><p></p><p>It was easy to spot as it was the only one up there at the time.</p><p></p><p>Real broadcast satellite came later on in my life when I got my first engineering job at a major broadcast equipment manufacture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 904928, member: 369937"] Humm how did I get into satellite ?? Let me think back about a half a century or more to when the Russians launched "Sputnik", learning that they had a transmitter on board and it was sending out beeps as it went over, I patched together a receiver (after blowing several house fuses) from some old army radio gear I found in my Uncles basement and a steerable (by hand) yagi, I listened in on 40.002 MHz as I saw it come over the horizon. It was easy to spot as it was the only one up there at the time. Real broadcast satellite came later on in my life when I got my first engineering job at a major broadcast equipment manufacture. [/QUOTE]
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