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I put in the“QRG"s of the four satellites to be launched by the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Not sure when they will launch them but will be before they land tomorrow. I have a scanner (radio) but I just have the small indoor antenna on it. I wish I had an outside antenna.
I tracked satellites in the early days of space. I even did a column in a publication with details and QRGs and orbit information. That was a long time ago. I used to track Explorer 7 and would fall asleep with my headphones on and the next orbit it would wake me up. Yes.. I been a geek a long time.
When I started Howard’s Notebook I had some of that sort of information on HNB and that was 1982. Lot of changes from when I tracked Sputnik 1 in 1957.
When I did my radio program “Calling All Shortwave Listeners” I would play each week a track from the 45 rpm “Sounds of Space.” It was made by Elmo Melton. I forget his call sign. Now he had a hell of a ham radio set up and tracking station. NASA lost one of their satellites and he found it for them.
