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        "address": "lee.ernstrom (a) rcwilley.com",
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    "sender_name": "Lee Ernstrom",
    "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] [Starcom-bb] VE2BMC & MORE!",
    "date": "2016-08-13T20:20:46Z",
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    "content": "Jimmy, you would be extremely popular working meteor scatter -- reflecting\nyour signal off the ionized trail of a burning meteor.  Also, the target is\nmuch easier to hit than a satellite as a passive reflector.  Check out\npingjockey.\n\nDoc, WA7HQD\nOn Aug 13, 2016 6:18 AM, \"K4FEG\" <[email protected]> wrote:\n\n> Hello All:\n>\n> below you will see the body of an email from *Jimmy, VE2BMC/KK6FAH*,\n> about his recent operations on SO-50 from his location in Canada. Jimmy is\n> an EME operator who through some encouragement fro W2HRO, decided to try\n> some satellite passes while back in Canada, with Jimmy's permission here is\n> the email:\n>\n> *\"Hi Frank,*\n>\n> *I hope all I well! Actually, thanks to YOU for all your help and for\n> passing on the message to the community. Ironically, since I am new with\n> Satellite communications and have not been following the\n> corresponding mailing lists, etc., I really had no clue that so many people\n> would have an interest in trying to contact me in these grids. I\n> had brought my HT and Arrow antenna with me with the hope of making \"one\"\n> contact with my EME friend W2HRO and perhaps a few other QSO's if lucky as\n> time permits. What unfolded was completely unexpected and on top of that, I\n> got infected by the virus! Now I have 2 viruses to manage (EME and Sat).\n> That won't make my wife happy... Hi Hi*\n>\n> *Since all my relatives are all living in VE2 territory and they are\n> located at the edged where the grids meet (FN38, FN48 and FN37), at my next\n> trip I will be able to activate FN37 easily (only 25 minutes south from my\n> father near \"Lac Bouchette\"), spend more time in FN48 where my mother\n> lives, and even more time in FN38 where my brother lives. Should be much\n> fun. *\n>\n> *On a related note, as I am specialized in EME communications and after my\n> recent experience in VE2 territory with Satellite, the thought came to\n> me that since it is possible to do 2-way communications by bouncing RF off\n> the surface of the Moon, it should be possible and much easier to use\n> satellites as \"passive reflector\" (just like the moon) in order to make\n> QSO's. The obvious advantage is that this would not require for the\n> satellite to have any repeater or transponder on them, but their simple\n> presence in the sky is sufficient. *\n>\n> *This communication scheme would open a tremendous amount of possibilities\n> for Amateur QSO's. Have you ever heard of any people attempting this? I\n> have recently read a few articles on the matter on the net indicating that\n> it was possible and some had gotten clear signals using space stations (ISS\n> and MIR) as reflectors, but there does not seem to be any organized group\n> of people that have attempted this in an organized way to make QSO's.*\n>\n> *I am certainly interested in investigating this further and try. May be\n> some in the mailing list would have inputs or experiences to share on the\n> matter. Again, I have been able to make EME QSO's with very small stations\n> relatively speaking (~8000 watts EIRP) so satellite reflection should be\n> much easier and accessible to relatively small stations.*\n>\n> *Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon,*\n>\n> *73, Jimmy*\n>\n>\n> *KK6FAH\" *If anyone has thoughts about some of Jimmy's interesting ideas\n> about \"passive\" satellite operations I think it would be a great discussion.\n>\n> I want to say a special thanks to Canada for all of the great \"Canadien\n> DX\" operations & for the hospitality provided to the \"American Invasion\" of\n> operators who have been active over the last two weeks.\n> *VE2BMC, Jimmy*: FN38 & FN48 operations (rare grids)\n> *N9IP/VE/VY/VO1&2*: GN38/GN19/GN18/GN07/GN08/GN09/\n> GO10/GO11/GO21/FN96/FN86/FN75/FN76\n> *(I MAY HAVE MISSED SOME) **NJ7H/FP/VO1/VY2: *GN16/GN17/GN27/GN37/FN86\n>\n> *(I have probably missed some of Gabe's grids as well, I gotta sleep\n> sometime!) *And we now have *Ron, N8RO* out on his trip to Western\n> Canada, Ron has already been on the satellites during this trip, A reminder\n> that Ron is traveling from \"point-to-point\" he is not pulling a travel\n> trailer, so he has less opportunity for deviations during this trip. LISTEN\n> LISTEN LISTEN!!\n>\n> Lately it has been a good time to be on the satellites, DX, new operators,\n> aeronautical grid hopping, camping \"rovers\" & much, much more!!\n> EXCITING TIMES!\n> And one more thing:  There is MUCH MORE to come this year!!\n>\n> I hope all are enjoying the satellites.\n> *Good Luck All & Good SatDX!!*\n> *73*\n> *K4FEG*\n>\n> _______________________________________________\n> Starcom-bb bulletin board\n> [email protected]\n> http://lists.star-com.net/listinfo/starcom-bb\n>\n>\n",
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