AO-40 was an incentive for me, though I never got beyond monitoring the 2m beacon in the early days after launch and before the incident with the 400N motor. I did collect a lot of good telemetry though
Unfortunately, LEOs can't solve the problem of vast distances meaning little chance of variety - all I've ever worked on satellite is VK, ZL, P29 and 3D2, but we have to make do with what is practical. :-/
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
I logged 762 QSO on AO-40 from 2001 to 2003 here is some of them:
VK4UBM VK3KOS VK3BVM
ZL2MN ZL2AWD ZL1DU
FR7SAT
JA6QTJ JA3THL JA1CG JA5CU JA1IRH JA3SGR JA5DVR/5 JA1COU
I was the last station in the world who get the WAC award on satellite:
SAT#9 May 1984 EN70 W4CKD Bob - SAT 02 Apr 1985 JN47 HB9CRQ Dan now HB9Q SAT 28 May 1985 JO30 DC8TS Hardy - SAT 07 Jun 1985 JO30 DC9ZP Manfred - SAT 27 Jul 1995 IO91 G0MRF David - SAT 17 Dec 1985 EN61 N2BJ Barry - SAT 06 Nov 1990 IO81 GW8TIX Gerald - SAT 13 Dec 1995 FN41 WA1QXR Ken - SAT 07 Feb 1997 FN34 N1JEZ Mike - SAT 12 Mar 1999 JO65 OZ1MY Ib - SAT 18 Dec 1998 JN52 IK0WGF ? ex-IW0DAL SAT 14-Jul-2000 DL81 XE2AT Al ex-XE2YVW SAT 31 Oct 2003 PM96 JN1BPM Hide - SAT 06 Sep 2006 FN36 VE2DWE Luc -
Complete list on http://www.qsl.net/ve2pij/vhfwac.html
If DX means something for you you should push for the last HEO actual project from AMSAT-DL but no fresh new from them since a long time now?
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Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe DSTAR urcall VE2DWE WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE