{"id":5988,"date":"2011-07-18T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/sputnik-qsl-from-the-soviet-igy-committee\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:59:10","slug":"sputnik-qsl-from-the-soviet-igy-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/sputnik-qsl-from-the-soviet-igy-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik QSL from the Soviet IGY Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SputnikIGYQSL.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 230px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SputnikIGYQSL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630654531533911570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I like the reminder of Sputnik&#8217;s IGY connection. This is from an article by John Foley. W7ETS, in the October 2007 issue of QST. Be sure to read the translation in the caption. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yesterday Billy and I were at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum&#8217;s Dulles Airport center. (We volunteer to take visiting relatives to the airport IF we get to go to the Smithsonian afterwards.) We checked for Sputniks. Nyet. I think they have one on display in the main Air and Space building. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I was thinking that listening to a signal from a spacecraft should be part of the Sputnik event. The packet 2-meter signals from the International Space Station are probably the easiest to receive these days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">Check out &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the reminder of Sputnik&#8217;s IGY connection. This is from an article by John Foley. W7ETS, in the October 2007 issue of QST. Be sure to read the translation in the caption. Yesterday Billy and I were at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum&#8217;s Dulles Airport center. (We volunteer to take visiting relatives to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/sputnik-qsl-from-the-soviet-igy-committee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sputnik QSL from the Soviet IGY Committee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,462,31,86,82,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-igy","category-radio-history","category-rainey-michael","category-satellites","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}