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Ahouxc.111 net.ham-radio utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!houxf!houxc!3356pbn Tue Nov 10 08:51:33 1981 Arrl bulletin 138 qst de ad7i hr arrl bulletin nr 138 from arrl headquarters newington ct november 5, 1981 to all radio amateurs bt

uosat oscar 9 update. the university of surrey reports that the spin rate of the spacecraft has now been determined to be 1 minute 50 seconds. this slower rate indicates that deployment of the 50 foot magnetometer boom will be soon. when the boom is deployed the hf beacons will be turned on. on november 3 to the digitalker was turned on for a few minutes and the surrey command station was able to upload a few sentences of english which was played back. ian ferebee, g6btu, spokesman for the group, said that the checkout was going well and all systems looked good. the latest orbital parameters for oscar 9 are, period 95.3961, inclination 23.8672, reference orbit 4)4, nasa, 3 nov 81 crossing equator at 1448 utc at 358.3 degrees west longitude. subtract 12 minutes and 10 degrees from november qst oscar 9 listings -- ar --

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