Eric Christensen wrote:
Roger, When talking to the astronauts on the ISS you aren't making a satellite contact. It is a LOS (line of sight) contact. When you make a contact with someone else on the ground VIA the ISS then it is a satellite contact.
But the contact is gervent by the rules pertained to by the ITU Amateur Satellite Service so from the ITU perspective it is a satellite contact. But I guess the question really pertains to the rules that an organisation has decreed for a particular award they issue.
--- Cathryn Mataga cathrynm@junglevision.com wrote:
ARRL should recognize the ISS as a country. That would stir up the pot. If Scarborough reef is a country, then why can't the ISS be a country?
You mean s DXCC Entity not a country - DXCC Entities are artificial creations that have nothing to do with countries, that's why there are 200 more DXCC Entities than countries.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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