Weekly Repeater Net Checkins – Sunday April 12

[Fred Kemmerer]

Here are the checkins from our weekly repeater net on Sunday April 12th.

Call Sign	Name	Location	Traffic?
AB1OC	Fred	Hollis	Y
AC1DC	Jamey	Nashua	N
N1SFT	Craig	Hudson	N
KB1RGB	Rick	Nashua	N
K1IGS	Matt	Antrim	N
W1MUZ	Dan	Bedford	N
AC1EV	Jon	Mirror Lake	N
AB1ZN	Charlie	Pepperell	N
AB1QB	Anita	Hollis	N
KC1MQY	Chris	Westford	N
KC1LBO	Al	Manchester	N
K2DAS	Dave	Nashua	N
KC1GNU	Dan	Barrington	N
KC1EOT	Les	Dover	N
K1DLM	Dave	Moultonboro	N

The topic was Apollo 13 Trivia as April 11th was the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13.

• Name the 3 crew members of Apollo 13.
  • Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert
• What astronaut was replaced at the last minute as the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 13 and went on to the moon in Apollo 16?
  • Ken Mattingly
• Why was Ken Mattingly replaced on Apollo 13
  • He had been exposed to the German Measles
• What famous ham and TV News broadcaster took us through all of the events of Apollo 13.
  • Walter Cronkite
• What was Walter Cronkite’s Callsign?
  • KB2GSD
• Who was the first ham to operate an amateur radio station from space?
  • Owen Garriott, KF5LFL
• What astronaut answered questions from students at Hudson Memorial School on December 7^th, 2018?
  • Serena Aunon-Chancellor, KG5TMT
• What were the words used by the astronauts when an incident occurred on Apollo 13?
  • Houston, we have a problem
• What action triggered the problem on Apollo 13?
  • Jack Swigert stirred the oxygen tanks, upon command from Houston, which caused one to explode

• What is the first master alarm observed by the Apollo 13 astronauts after the explosion occurred
  • Main bus B undervolt
• What was the name of the Flight Director who stated, ‘Failure is not an option’?
  • Gene Kranz
• What was the name of the rocket used to launch Apollo 13?
  • Saturn V

• Who designed the Saturn V Rocket?
  • Werner Von Braun
• Where did the Apollo 13 crew spend most of the trip to the moon and back home?
  • In the Lunar Module
• What did the crew name the Command Module for Apollo 13?
  • Odyssey

• What did the crew name the Lunar Module for Apollo 13?
  • Aquarius
• What do the three astronauts have to build in order to avoid being poisoned to death by the polluted air?
  • An improvised carbon dioxide scrubber

• What is the name of the NASA Amateur Radio Operator who just launched to the International Space Station this week?
  • Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR

• What actor played Gene Kranz in the movie Apollo 13?
  • Ed Harris
• Ed Harris portrayed Astronaut John Glenn in which movie?
  • The Right Stuff
• Today is the 59^th anniversary of what space travel milestone?
  • Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space.

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