ARLA/CLUSTER: Você chegou a escutar o Sputnik em 1957? O Museu de Cambridge quer o seu relato.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Did you hear Sputnik in 1957?

The ARRL reports a museum in Cambridge UK wants to hear from those who
remember hearing the 20 MHz beacon from the Sputnik satellite which
launched in 1957

The ARRL story says:

As part of an effort to tell the story of the International
Geophysical Year (IGY) 60 years ago, a Cambridge, England, museum
wants to hear from anyone who remembers the Soviet Union’s launch of
Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. Many radio amateurs and shortwave
listeners (SWLs) of the era were among those thrilled to receive the
satellite’s 20 MHz beacon.

The Scott Polar Research Institute Polar Museum at Cambridge
University will mark the IGY anniversary later this year. The IGY was
a global effort to better map and understand the planet, and it put
heavy emphasis on Antarctica as well as studies of space and the
atmosphere. The Polar Museum exhibition recount the story of Sputnik,
the establishment of scientific bases in Antarctica, and the
individuals involved in the IGY.

“Although largely forgotten now, the International Geophysical Year
involved many thousands of people from all of the world and from all
walks of life,” said Museum Curator Charlotte Connelly. “We’d like to
capture some of those experiences in our exhibition and show the
phenomenal reach of this important moment for global science.”

If you were among those monitoring and/or spotting Earth’s first
artificial satellite contact Connelly via e-mail:
museum<at>spri.cam.ac.uk

The exhibit, “The Year that Made Antarctica: People, Politics, and the
International Geophysical Year,” opens on April 26.

Source ARRL
http://www.arrl.org/news/uk-museum-wants-to-hear-from-those-who-remember-sputnik-launch