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G0TEZ/TPK 1.83c Num 79 08-12-02T12:17:28 GMT: COLNE,Lancs:
I think the message below might be a reply to me as part of it is a quote
from me.
What I didn't put in my first bulletin was that the people who monitored
Sputnik 1 were the pupils of Kettering Grammar School for Boys in
Leicestershire, England. They set up a row of dipoles under the direction
of their science master who was a radio ham.
The only other people who were capable of monitoring it were Sir Bernard
Lovell and his small team, building the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in
Cheshire, England, The government was about to withdraw funding from the
radio telescope but the fact that Sputnik 1 could easily have been an ICBM
and no government, especially the Americans, could monitor it, resulted in
Bernard Lovell getting massive funding, without which, the radiotelescope
wouldn't exist. I think it got him his knighthood as well. I did meet him
once and he is a very nice man. He is still around to the best of my
knowledge but, like the other famous astronomer, Patrick Moore, is nearly
90 years old.
The above is taken from the media at the time. I had no interest in amateur
radio even though I did repair TV sets, so I have no idea what frequency
Sputnik 1 was on but I do know that all you had to do was ask the Russians
as it was no secret. This is what Sir Bernard and the unknown science
master at Kettering both did and the Americans apperently didn't.
A few years later, I did see the first transmission from Telstar. Does
anyone remember them especially the one from Paris?
All the best. Ian.
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>I presume you are talking about the UK here, Ian. I monitored Sputnik1 on
>40 something megs in 1957, and then Sputnik 2 on a frequency around 20
>megs. I used to listen on the 40 meg frequency till the signal appeared
>and then the whole family and the neighbours dashed outside to see it pass
>over head (night time passes, of course).
>Bob VK6BE
>
>> After all, it was a British radio ham who was the only person
>> outside Jodrell Bank, who could listen to Sputnik in 1957.
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