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Old 3rd Dec 2017, 6:08 pm   #31
Al (astral highway)
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Default Re: Home brew converter to listen to Satellites, plus capture of Voyager TX by NASA

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Originally Posted by Argus25 View Post
I've attached an image of a 1969 vintage Intelsat 3 satellite, which gives an idea of the internal construction standards.
Breathtaking work there, thanks for the pic! This is very much 'my' era. I was six years old at the time, very impressed by tech and extremely fascinated by these forays for years after. I was just starting to dissassemble my first valve radio to see what was inside.

It was quite a careful dissection for my age and I kept the most impressive looking components and tried to find out what they did: not easy as I didn't have a mentor of any kind, but I was quite patient. I remember being very intrigued by the big multi-gang tuning capacitor as well as by the internal construction of the valves.
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