Francesca Knowles wrote:
camperpaul wrote:
As many have alluded to here, height is might.
In November of 1974, I escorted a Mr. Oscar Seven (that was the name on his airline ticket) to California where he took a ONE WATT wideband frequency translator and installed it place 912 miles above the surface of the earth.
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There's a place in California that's 912 miles above the surface of the earth?
No Francesca, Oscar VII is a Low Earth Orbit satellite and was launched from Vandenberg AFB on 15 Nov 1974.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7
