OSCAR 1

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If you think to you might enjoy messing around with satellites, ham radio is pretty easy to get into these days. This is especially true for VHF/UHF, which is what amateur satellites use, and only requires the Technician license.

For equipment you just need a handheld VHF/UHF radio (as cheap as $25 for a Baofeng http://www.amazon.com/BaoFeng-UV-5R-Dual-Radio-Black/dp/B007... but I'd recommend a Yaesu, Kenwood, or Icom if you can afford it) and a simple yagi antenna (Google "tape measure yagi", or something like this if you don't want to DIY: http://www.arrowantennas.com/arrowii/146-437.html)

http://www.amsat.org/

http://www.heavens-above.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0CWz4Emyro

https://hamstudy.org/

Here's a good example of someone "working" a popular amateur radio satellite, SO-50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhBs5DlKaVU

In American Morse Code, "HO" sounds like "HI" in international Morse Code, "HO HO" became "HI HI".

Huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Morse_code says that 'o' was encoded as 'dit <space> dit', whereas 'i' was encoded as 'dit dit'. International Morse Code changes 'o' to be 'dah dah dah'. I cannot see any evidence American Morse was used for radio, though it may have been.

In American Morse, "O" was two dits separated by a space. Intracharacter spaces were eliminated in International Morse Code. "O" became three dahs. "I" is two dits with no space.

It's probably vandalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OSCAR_1&diff=next...

A single edit from that ip in a year.

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