Hello John and everyone else.
According to the logbook that contact was around 2.5 degrees elevation which is very close to my horizon. My best distance would probably be a contact with EI4HT.
Another feature of AO-40 which may or may not be relevant to your talk Pete, was the variety of uplinks and downlinks. One of my most memorable contacts was with OE1VKW. I was using U/S, he was using L/K. Four bands for one contact. Mind you, he was doing most of the work for that one. Maybe not specific to a HEO, but SSB/CW on K-band on a LEO would be extremely difficult. Having an almost stationary HEO made it possible.
Happy days indeed.
73 de David VK5DG
On 22/03/11 10:02, John Heath wrote:
My best DX on AO-40 was VK5DG south Australia from central england. 70cms up 2.4GHz down.
Happy days !!
73 john G7HIA
From: P.H.bbjunkie@f2s.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, 20 March, 2011 1:17:40 Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-40 range record ??
Hi,
For a small club satellite presentation I will be mentioning the benefits of HEO over LEO and the range advantage.
Can anyone tell me the distance record set when AO-40 was alive?
Thanks
73
2i0VAX
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