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Title: No Sputniks Heard Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on October 11, 2006, 07:29:17 PM Been using this receiver for several years and I haven't heard one Sputnik. I want my money back!
These units sold for over $1200 in 1958. That's almost 8 grand in today's dollars. (http://www.amwindow.org/misc/gif/sputnik51j4ad1958.gif) Title: Re: No Sputniks Heard Post by: w1guh on October 11, 2006, 07:32:10 PM Yes - hear sputnik...wasn't it around 7 MHz?
It just so happened that my father was listening to Radio Moscow after the launch but before the news hit America and heard about it there. Sniff...'scuse me while I get wistful for the great days of shortwave radio. Title: Re: No Sputniks Heard Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on October 11, 2006, 07:36:20 PM They equipped the Sputnik with transmitters to broadcast on frequencies at 20 and 40 MHz.
Title: Re: No Sputniks Heard Post by: Todd, KA1KAQ on October 12, 2006, 10:02:49 AM It must need alignment, Steve. Sputnik is all-powerful, it pins the gauges here. I listen to it awwwwwl the time!
I remember an OT telling me the Ruskies set Sputnik up to sound like it was laughing at us. Sounds like ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaa ? Judge for yourselves: V V V V Title: Re: No Sputniks Heard Post by: k4kyv on October 12, 2006, 11:09:37 AM Been using this receiver for several years ... (http://www.amwindow.org/misc/gif/sputnik51j4ad1958.gif) Aren't the Collins -4 series receivers (75A and 51J), according some members of this Board, pieces of crap unworthy to be used for AM? Title: Re: No Sputniks Heard Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on October 12, 2006, 11:12:56 AM Two different animals Don. Betcha you never heard a Sputnik on your A4. That's another reason to get rid of it. ;D
Title: Re: No Sputniks Heard Post by: Bacon, WA3WDR on October 12, 2006, 09:53:26 PM I heard Oscar 6 or 7, I think, on 10 meters back around 1974. All these ssb signals drifting around together... But, I was using my R-392. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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