Re: Sputnik 1 and 2.

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Ørnulf Midtskogen wrote:
> To Robert Sheaffer, Jay Respler and others interested.
> But I listened to the "grapefruit" on SW radio, 19.995MHz as I
> recall.

Actually, the grapefruit was Vanguard 1, so called by Nikita Khruschev
I believe. It's the only one of the 5 Vanguard payloads and rockets that
I haven't seen yet.  I think it broadcast at a much higher frequency.
The Sputniks used 20 and 40 MHz. Sputnik was much larger than Vanguard.
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