Astronaut W5LFL, Owen Garriott is SK

PE1KWE · Apr 19, 2019

RIP Owen, you will be remembered. de PE1KWE, Dirk.

KG4AKV · Apr 19, 2019

K0UO said: ↑

It's with deep regards that I hear about Owens passing, the first ham in space.
His dad was one of my Elmer's, he was a old-time ham.
I was able to talk to him on his first pass in the space shuttle Columbia, and I cherish the qsl card. And I still have the recording, of his first pass over the United States on the "Spacecraft Columbia" as he called it.
The main street in Enid Oklahoma where Vance air force base is is named Owen K Garriott.
His son is also a ham and an astronaut
They were the first American father-son astronauts.
They were both together at Dayton a few years ago.
Three generations of amateur radios come from this family.
He held the record for longest space flight for quite a number of years being in the Skylab program.
Spacecraft Columbia from W5LFL
I also talked to his son from the International Space Station from my V31KW station in Belize Central America.
A true Ham family, three generations of very knowledgeable and successful people.

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You should put that recording on YouTube or something.

K0UO · Apr 20, 2019

PE1KWE said: ↑

RIP Owen, you will be remembered. de PE1KWE, Dirk.
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Richard Owen's son is a Ham, his son (now W5KWQ which is his Grandad's Owen SR original call) from my station in Belize V31KV, when he was on the International Space Station

K0UO · Apr 20, 2019

IW2BSF said: ↑

and....

Richard Garriott (Owens son) was also an astronaut, he flew up in a Soyuz space capsule on October 23rd 2008 and spent 12 days in the ISS (International Space Station) that have a contact via radio with his father on earth (the contact is on Youtube ! ), he’s a successful computer game developer,

Although not a Ham, but as goal driven as his father was.

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IW2BSF · Apr 20, 2019

thanks for the precisation !

K8BZ · Apr 22, 2019

W5LFL, RIP. Thank you for sparking my interest in space communications.

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