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Ham operator flies high
on board space shuttle
United Press International
Astronaut Owen Garriott,
America’s highest flying
amateur radio operator, said
Thursday poor reception won’t
discourage him from using the
ham radio set he is carrying
aboard the space shuttle Col
umbia.
“The reception up here is
pretty weak. I was not able to
pick out as many statons as I
wanted,” Garriott said from the
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shuttle in a televised news con
ference. “I heard them from
California to Mexico City, and
later in Chile and Argentina.”
He missed an opportunity to
contact ham operators in the
eastern United States during the
news conference, but said that as
the mission continues, “I’ll have
a greater number of opportuni
ties for ham contacts.”
Garriott — whose walkie-
talkie barreled through interfer
ence generated by West Coast
hams trying to tune in Wednes
day night — repeated the few
call signs he heard 155 miles
above the planet.
Los Angeles ham Norm Chal-
fin said Garriott sounded “as if
he was in the next room. It de
monstrates very definitely that a
person in space can talk to a per
son on earth with a hand-held
transceiver.”
Thursday morning hundreds
of hams — including Garriott’s
cousin, Gary — were at their
sets, waiting for the shuttle
astronaut.
But Garriott and his five com
panions were preoccupied with
the news conference.
Gary Garriott, who was moni
toring a radio at an electronics
store in Laurel, Md., said, “We
won’t give up. We’ll be back
tomorrow.”
While he was trying to reach
his orbiting cousin, another ham
going to get
“I’m looking
burst on the air. “You’re not
thing,” he said,
im on TV right
now.”
Sally O’Dell, a first grade
teacher and ham in South Wind
sor, Conn., set up a radio in her
classroom in hopes of catching
the astronaut.
“I’m disappointed,” student
Driscoll Reia, 7, said. “I want to
be an astronaut.”
Garriott, a ham since he was a
school boy, is expected to be on
the air several times daily during
the mission, which is due to end
Wednesday.
He can be heard on the fre
quency of 145.55 megahertz
during his spare time.
Asked during the news con
ference if there are any practical
applications of ham radio to fu
ture shuttle flights, Garriott re
plied: “I don’t know. Our com
munications systems are really
quite reliable up here. We’ve got
lots of backups, but as Comman
der John (Young) has pointed
out, one extra backup may not
hurt.”
Kids
(continued from page 1)
Views of the Adolescent Pro
cess.”
Coleman says nonconfor
mity is an almost universal fea
ture of adolescent behavior.
He leans heavily on the
theories of Psychoanalyst Pe
ter Bios, who believes that in
order for an adolescent to
properly enter adulthood he
must first go through a regres
sive stage m which he exhibits
behavior characteristic of a
younger child.
Bios believes this regression
“explains many of the easily
recognized features of adoles
cent behavior such as emo
tional turbulence, ambiva
lence, rebelliousness, negativ
ism and so on.”
Teenage opinions were
once again corroborative of
the experts’. The students
were asked to describe the
characteristics of a rebellious
adolescent acquaintance. It
sounded like they were de
scribing the same person.
The typical answer was that
rebellious person says he
doesn’t need college or pa
rents or guidance of any kind.
He shuns advice, sometimes
purposely doing the opposite.
nd ot
Drugs, sex, violence and other
igs
‘tools” of rebellion were only
secondary and superficial to
the attitudes.
The particularly assertive
girl had spoken first, after
rolling her eyes. She told of
her former association with a
clique she now considers to be
the “wrong crowd,” a group of
students that were continually
protesting something.
Even now, she said, the
group is planning a sit-in be
cause the student body was de
nied an extra school day off
due to a discipline problem.
When she decided to leave
the circle, her former
“friends” egged the inside of
her car, ana threatened to do
more because of her “disloyal
ty”— actions which convinced
her she was right about
leaving.
The similarities between
this behavior and behavior
characteristic of the sixties is
apparent. This similarity rein
forces the assertions of Powell
and Bios that rebellion is more
a part of adolescence than the
result of any particular cul
ture.
Differences of method and
scope are explained li
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and other experts inte^
environment.
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dren were raised
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Moreno’s trial
move granted
from staff and wire reports
The trial of Eliseo “Joe”
Moreno, the man accused of kill
ing six people, including two
from College Station, will move
from Waller to Fort Bend
County.
State District Judge Oliver
Kitzman set Jan. 17 as Moreno’s
trial date. Prosecutor Jim
Keeshan did not oppose the
move of the trial.
Defense lawyers said it would
be impossible to get a fair trial
for Moreno in the Wallti!
ty because all of the pi
surrounding the case.
Moreno, 24, a Bryn
mower repairmen is am
killing two of his in-law a
lege Station, and then
trooper and three eldeti
pie in Hempstead
spree that covered
southeast Texas on Octi
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