Hamby wrote on 2021-02-14, 05:43:
I was in highschool when Voyager made its flyby of Jupiter (Voyager 1, iirc).
I entered JPL's "Why Expore the Planets?" competition... won a nice little picture of Saturn from Voyager.
I barely missed out on the opportunity to go to JPL (the winning prize). Story of my life...
Hey, that's awesome! 😎👍Thanks for sharing your story!
I wished I was around at that time, but alas, this was before my time.
I'm also from Europe, so a travel to JPL would tave been akin to trip around the world. *sigh*
Speaking of JPL, there used to be an event at JPL that included SSTV over amateur radio, in the early 80s, I believe.
I think it was about the Grand Tour of Voyager 2.. 😀
Links
https://jplarc.ampr.org/calling/1981/sep/sep81.html
https://jplarc.ampr.org/newsletters/1981/oct/oct81.html
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stories/coming-you-l … e-planet-saturn
This was in a time when Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and amateur radio (esp. VHF/UHF/Microwaves) were fresh and had a good/positive reputation, I assume.
Makes me kinda sad that I missed out on this.
Judging by the photos found, popular hardware of the time were the Yaesu radios (FT-101, FRG-7, FRG-7000 maybe too),
the Robot 400 slow-scan converter, Apple IIs and other Z80 computers, Weller Magnastat TCP24 soldering stations etc.
Edit: The SSTV archive used to be here, but the mp3s seem to be nolonger available, sadly.
Edit: Good news! It was a lot of work, but here'ssome piece of history! 😁
Edit: There apparently also was a little SSTV event for the Viking mission..
https://jplarc.ampr.org/newsletters/1976/dec/dec76.html
Edit: Just found out that the club station's call's suffix VIO (prefix W6) was meant to say "Voyager In Outer Space". Cool! 😎
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