[amsat-bb] Re: EU members - UHF contest tonight?

On 10/09/2012 04:13 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:

Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.

73, Drew KO4MA

I can recall (many years ago) during a perigee pass of AO-13 over SA, I could clearly hear SA stations working terrestrial UHF FM, mobile, with the satellite on the omni antennas. Perhaps I should have sent out QSL cards with SWL reports, just to encourage those operators to consider the possibility of raising their eyes above the horizon.....