Welcome to See-Sat L Alberto! Nice to have you aboard. Best wishes Bruce Bruce MacDonald COSPAR Site 2751 Devizes, Wiltshire, UK 51.5440 N 1.9849 W 125m (WGS84) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Rango" <alberto.rango@tin.it> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 2:17 PM Subject: Introductory letter. > > Newcomer to SeeSat, briefly, I would like to introduce myself to > the SeeSat members. Aged 62, I have been observing sats since 1960 > (60 Iota 1). Contacted by Mr Pierre Neirinck in 1962, I observed more > professionally sats up to 1966. After 30 years of obs interruption, mainly > due to my absorbing profession of navy officer, I resumed sat obs in > 1996 after retirement from the navy, keeping contact again with Pierre > Neirinck. I am a traditional visual observer, from two sites in Italy > (4541 > Rome and 4641 Bari). My HW is made up of a radio controlled watch, > two Lap memory 10 CASIO stopwatches, one good binoculars VIXEN > 10x50 and a very recent binoculars, not yet tested, ANTARES 15x70 . > I have SW for sats passing prediction and coordinates calculation of > observed points and ...a lot of...passion for sats. I am an observer, not > an analyst. In total, I observed more than 5000 transits . I used to be a > subscriber of [dsat] since mid 2003. > It is a privilege and I am honoured to be in the SeeSat. > > Alberto Rango > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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