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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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"Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:vq1kqn$plf3$1@dont-email.me...

> A disdain for hands-on technician work was fairly common among electrical 
> engineers,

Amateur radio is an exception, an operator might be the chief engineer at a 
large tech company or even the King of Jordan, and amateur experimentation 
was sometimes at the leading edge of technology, such as tracking Sputnik.

https://www.onallbands.com/amateur-radio-history-hams-inspired-by-sputnik-1-built-oscar-1-2-and-3-satellites-taking-amateur-radio-into-space/

"A ham himself, the Air Force chief set aside space on the Discover 36 KH-3 
Corona surveillance satellite in the aft of the payload (where a ballast was 
normally kept) for the candidly-titled OSCAR-1 (Orbiting Satellite Carrying 
Amateur Radio) satellite to hitch a ride on its history-making space debut."

https://brightascension.com/what-is-a-cubesat/