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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Tony Williams
date: 2006-01-24 13:44:36
subject: Re: Eurocontrol is at least useful for something

From: Tony Williams 

Phil Payne wrote:
>>They should worry about satellite spotters too. There's a good article
>>in this month's Wired about how amateurs are tracking satellites as a
>>hobby and getting mysterious calls from "southern
gentlemen" asking for
>>orbital data on spy satellites.
>
>
> Wired, as usual, is nearly four decades late.
>
> http://www.zarya.info/kgs.htm

I'm sure I heard something about the original Sputnik's signals being
detected at a school in England too.

--
Tony

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