Information about AO-27

[Mark Kanawati]

Hello all
I still have vivid memory of the long days while designing, acquiring 
parts, building, testing, launching, and commanding Oscar 27.
Therefore I will devote one or two hours today to brainstorm and type some 
of those memories, so that Andre, Dave, Glenn, Matt, Randy, Sandy, Terry, 
and all AO-27 participants can put their Mark on this article.

Randy will get to edit/polish it all before sending it out.

AMRAD and all those who participated deserve the best international 
recognition for what they accomplished.  After all the multi-million 
dollars French Spots 3 surveillance spacecraft we launched with on the same 
rocket hand failed on orbit and AMRAD AO-27 still going strong nearing its 
fifth birthday this September.

I look forward to your input.
There is many pictures available that Sandy, Paul, Chris Butcher(Matt 
Brother) and I among others took at the time.

73
Mark


-----Original Message-----
From:	Zaech,Joerg-Peter, LES1 [SMTP:Joerg-Peter.Zaech@erl11.siemens.de]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 28, 1998 4:24 AM
To:	Tacos
Subject:	AW: Information about AO-27

HI Andre, Mark, Sandy,

do you have any Information.
The deadline for the article will be 7th May, 1998!

Thanks, vy 73
Jorg-Peter Zach, DH3NBC@amsat.org


> ----------
> Von: 	Randy Mays[SMTP:randy@pobox.com]
> Gesendet: 	Donnerstag, 16. April 1998 17:10
> An: 	Zaech,Joerg-Peter, LES1; Tacos
> Betreff: 	Re: Information about AO-27
>
> Andre, Mark, Sandy,
>
>     Please respond to this note.  You all have more technical information
> on
> AO-27.
>
>     Do we have digitized photos of the satellite, or the circuit boards?
> If
> so, I'm sure it will be all right if those are published.
>
> Randy, W6RAM
>
> Zaech,Joerg-Peter, LES1 wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > > I use AO-27 as often as possible over europa. My opinion is, that it
> is
> > > a good FM-repeater with excellent signals, but the satellite is not 
so
> > > well-known as FO-20 or FO-29. So I am writing an article about:
> > >
> > >       AO-27 the easy-sat not only for beginners
> > >
> > for the AMSAT-DL Journal. The article is to 90% ready and now I need
> > informations about:
> >
> > > Short discription of the Experiments on AO-27.
> > > Hardware: Antennas, RX, TX, modulators, demodulators, FM Transponder,
> > > powerlevels ...
> > I also need picture(s) (electronic) of the satellite with the copyright
> for
> > printing in the AMSAT-DL Journal.
> >
> > > Thank you very much!
> > >
> > > vy73
> > >
> > > Joerg-Peter Zaech, DH3NBC, Member of AMSAT-DL
> > > DH3NBC@amsat.org
> > >
> > > Joerg-Peter Zaech
> > > Hallstaedter Weg 44
> > > D-90425 Nuernberg
> > >
> > >
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