Tiny Satellite

[Phil]

> Wikipedia has it all:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
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> Phil M1GWZ
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> On 18 Apr 2016, at 23:17, <lstoskopf at cox.net> wrote:
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>> I have just been watching some of the BBC stuff on WW2.  Somehow I had never connected to the fact that the  "Window" aluminum strips had to be little dipoles of the right length.  Duh!  So how would the copper needles work as there is a lot of space up there to fill and intermod if they were tuned might have been interesting.  N0UU
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>> ---- Phil via Tacos <tacos at amrad.org> wrote: 
>>> Remember that project in the 1960s to fill space with little copper needles? Looks like it's being completed by stealth.
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>>> Phil M1GWZ
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