Information about AO-27

[André Kesteloot]

AO-27 was the subject of several articles in the AMRAD Newsletter. If you did
not keep all the issues, I did. let me know.
andré n4ick
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Mark Kanawati wrote:

> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
> >