Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first Amateur Radio Satellite, OSCAR 1 (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio). AMSAT UK has put online a telegram sent from the Radio Society of Great Britain, with news that OSCAR 1 had been received in the United Kingdom along with links to several articles on the satellite and an audio clip of it.

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