Angatuba - Legionaire
In Year 1983 I was observing the fly of Space Shuttle over the city of Sao Paulo
In early 80´s I was young and dreaming with the Space Shuttle Columbia launches and how to track it over the heaven of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. But then it was very difficult because there was no web and any orbit coordenates... But despite this and using a simple program in basic language and news from newspapers and radio station Voice of America, finnaly I get good results. I saw the space shuttle in orbit when crossing the sky of that city. My next step was, with aid of corner antenna and a diode detector on the focus, to detect the radio signals of first experiments of SAR- Side Looking Radar on board of Columbia STS-2...and also the Soviet radar that was on a spy satellite observing the british fleet in Falkland (Malvinas) war. But unsuccessfully , because I did not know where that time was the Soviet satellite. With the aid of that single home made radar detector then it was possible to listen three our local early warning radar to the range of 150 km (94 miles), a local air traffic and a weather radar! That was only my old amateur radio microwave experiment.
In Year 1983 I was observing the fly of Space Shuttle over the city of Sao Paulo
In early 80´s I was young and dreaming with the Space Shuttle Columbia launches and how to track it over the heaven of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. But then it was very difficult because there was no web and any orbit coordenates... But despite this and using a simple program in basic language and news from newspapers and radio station Voice of America, finnaly I get good results. I saw the space shuttle in orbit when crossing the sky of that city. My next step was, with aid of corner antenna and a diode detector on the focus, to detect the radio signals of first experiments of SAR- Side Looking Radar on board of Columbia STS-2...and also the Soviet radar that was on a spy satellite observing the british fleet in Falkland (Malvinas) war. But unsuccessfully , because I did not know where that time was the Soviet satellite. With the aid of that single home made radar detector then it was possible to listen three our local early warning radar to the range of 150 km (94 miles), a local air traffic and a weather radar! That was only my old amateur radio microwave experiment.