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Old October 4th 06, 10:25 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Dick Chisel Dick Chisel is offline
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Default Sputnik I,49 years ago today...

rtc wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/

Was wondering if any of the "vintage" swl's here
tuned in to 19.995 mhz back then to hear it....


I wanted to hear it in the worst way...but the only receiver available
to me then was a BC-348 and that only went to 18 Mc/s. I started to
build a 15 meter converter, but Sputnik stopped transmitting before I
could gather all the parts and finish the converter... :-(