[amsat-bb] RE: Friendship 7

[Jrocky <jrocky@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

Friendship 7, boy that's 40 years ago :^)

I think and  I could be wrong, the HF frequency was in the 10 MHz range.

I had a ham friend who worked at a Television station in the news room
radio
dispatch office and he called with the frequency to listen and pass
times over
the USA.  I had a Hammarlund HQ 180 receiver, general coverage triple
conversion!
I remember trying to listen for Freedom 7 but never copied it.

Jerry - K0HZI

Bob Bruninga wrote:

> Just watched a replay on NASA select of John Glen's first orbits.
THey
> had  him switch to HF over Bermuda?  I wonder what freq he used?
>
> Ah, just got a view of a tracking station with a set of 4 VHF helixes
with
> what looks like 10m whips off the edges of the huge ground plane..
>
> First time I have ever seen a pretty-well complete replay of the
mission
> with almost all of the comms.  I guess this is for the 40th
anniversary..
>
> de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob




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