Hi William, PE1RAH
Again congratulations for VO-52 my preferred satellite along with FO-29.Both satellites are extensively used as well here in Europe by those HAM people who like CW and SSB. Since you are in Tokyo try please to get accurate technical informations about the new ICOM 9100 and let us know your opinion about.
Tanks and 73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Leijenaar" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:38 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] My visit to Ham Fair Tokyo and joining JAMSAT booth
Hello (J)AMSATs,
Today was the last day of Tokyo Ham Fair, which was another great day like it was yesterday. I was at the JAMSAT booth where I showed my small transponder design to the HAM people, which gave a lot off interest from all kinds of people. Possibilities for future satellite have been created and people have been made interrested in doing satellite communication.
I had also the opertunity to meet a lot of people using the VO-52 satellite, on which is my transponder. It is a great joy to see the satellite activities here on the other side of the globe (seen from my home in The Netherlands). I noticed that a lot of CW is used here. Some people are doing city junting, which means they have their car build like a satellite station (incl. rotor and elevation) and hop between satellite passes from one city to another, and try to make QSOs from as many cities as possible. The car stations are real nice contructions, and of great ham spirit. Very nice to see...
There was also a list with number of contacts made for each satellite pass by one ham. The highest number was on VO-52 with 42 QSO's for one pass (over Japan), 36 in CW and 6 in SSB. Its really amazing, and it must have been done with very high time efficiency, and a very fast CW wrist hihi...
It was a great time at the JAMSAT booth, and we had a nice after party with lot of JAMSAT members, and with delicious Japanese food. My thanks for the great hospitality from the JAMSAT people, and thanks for the nice talks we had about satellites.
73 de JA/PE1RAH William Leijenaar in Tokyo (till 28 August) ---
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