[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite capable hams along NW Africa coast?

--- On Sat, 3/11/12, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:

Pondering things today, I wonder if there are any satellite capable hams along the NW African coast? I have short windows into Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, and maybe a little further south.

CN8LL in Morocco may be your best bet.

It's a bleak region for amateur radio, the last figures released by IARU showed the following number of amateur stations:

Algeria - 60 Morocco - 176 Western Sahara - no figures presumably zero hams Mauritania - 20 Senegal - 41

That's 297 hams total. You could take the percentage of US Hams who are AMSAT-NA members and apply it to 297 to get the number likely to be active.

73 Trevor M5AKA