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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/BMRPI2GSD6NBFBB732WOY4RSQYZL5GXJ/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "BMRPI2GSD6NBFBB732WOY4RSQYZL5GXJ", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/BMRPI2GSD6NBFBB732WOY4RSQYZL5GXJ/", "sender": { "address": "k0blt (a) juno.com", "mailman_id": "82d15e0ada534ea6845440278a076b63", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/82d15e0ada534ea6845440278a076b63/emails/" }, "sender_name": "Frank A Cahoy", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Stretching the footprint!!", "date": "2008-02-02T23:24:57Z", "parent": null, "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PTVD7NH6WG7ZU7JT7LZ2HQ2R24GI57OB/" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "\n\nCongrats Bob. I'm actually jealous. I have yet to hear Europe on AO-7\nbut that's only because I've been very QRV on HF. I'm sure it can be\ndone from DN81. It's a feather in your hat no matter how you look at it.\n\nI think I'll throw my hat into the ring for footprint stretching. I have\nto go back to AO-40 for my bragging rights. On 20 Oct. 2003 I worked\nVK9CD in NH87 and that figures to about 10073 miles to DN81. I was\nhearing the fellows on the West Coast work VK9CD and again, I was very\njealous because I figured I had but only 8 to 10 minute window under the\nbest of conditions. To make matters worse the window was totally below\n10 degrees of elevation. Then rubbing salt into the wound was a very\ntall line of Chinese Elm trees between my sat antennas the horizon. When\nI saw that I had a slight chance I began calling them. The West Coast\nguys told me that VK9CD was hearing me! I could not hear them or my own\ndownlink. Determination was also the key for me. I finally heard them\never so faintly just as LOS was almost on us. All of the sudden I heard\nmy call clearly and distinctly and the exchange happened in literally,\nthe last few seconds of the footprint. I stepped out on my front steps\nto try and figure how such a piece of great good luck could have\nhappened. Looking up at that row of trees I saw a \"hole\" through the\nleaves about the size of a bushel basket. My prize piece of AO-40 DX was\nworked in the few seconds that the bird was actually \"line of sight\". \nBTW, all of this on CW!!\n\nThis may be off subject a bit but I've been a DXer for 47+ years and that\nwas by far one of my most memorable QSOs satellite, HF or otherwise.\nI was never tempted to post the above story until Bob's good fortune on\nAO-7. See what great fun we could have with an AO-10 type bird up in an\nHEO!! That's it. I'm climbing down off my soapbox.\n\n73 to all. Frank, KØBLT\n", "attachments": [] }