Re: [amsat-bb] FW: AO-7

Hi All,

Chris VK6FCBG and myself did complete a one way double hop contact yesterday, 0945z 14 Mar 2015. AO-07 and FO-29 were visible at the same time in Perth Western Australia for about 10 minutes. I transmitted CW on 432.150MHz to AO-07 and Chris heard me on FO-29's downlink of 435.850. Satellite to satellite link was on 145.950MHz. Next is to complete a two-way voice contact.

Cheers, Rick VK6XLR

On 13/03/2015 02:57, :

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:05:51 +0100 From:dj8ms@web.de To:kladuke1144@msn.com Subject: Re: AO-7

   Kerry, .........


     I heard/read about such double hops from prior I think FM-SATs.
     And actually was joking with some other guy years ago to try
     some dxing with VO-52 and FO-29 I think.
     As their up&downlink could actually match. A pitty VO-52 is
     gone...

     I was calling on AO-7 on 145.954 (local), thus maybe 956 at AO-7
     directly... this could give .844 on FO-29 as they have almost
     constant distant I assume there is not much Doppler. At 10:38
     FO-29 was pretty close to your EN91 station, if you used that
     one, the Doppler was likely minimal too... Sooo I'd assume
     you've heard me around .845 or so.