Hi!
If we're talking first satellite contacts... I worked two DX stations for my first satellite contacts in March 2000, using the SO-35 "SunSat" FM satellite. The FO0AAA Clipperton DXpedition had mentioned they might work satellites, but they didn't show up. Instead, I worked XE1MEX and XE2YVW (now better known as XE2AT) using a pair of HTs and long whip antennas for my first satellite QSOs. I got QSL cards from both of them, and the QSO with XE1MEX is also confirmed in Logbook of the World. :-)
Other than one UO-14 contact in June 2003 (another DX QSO, with XE2BSS in Baja California), I didn't get the satellite "bug" until late 2005. I tried AO-51, and worked K7RQN who was about 10 miles away from me that December morning - my first non-DX satellite QSO. Still having fun with satellites...
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:46 PM Mike Seguin n1jez@burlingtontelecom.net wrote:
I got in to satellite with AO-10 and AO-13. My first 4 contacts were 75% DX...
06-29-95 11:36 PJ2MI 59 59 FK52NC SSB AO-13 B 07-02-95 16:13 K3EVM 59 59 FM19NL SSB AO-13 B 07-04-95 11:55 PA3GWF 59 59 JO23TE SSB AO-10 B 07-04-95 12:10 ON4CZ 59 59 JO10VL SSB AO-10 B
Mike