A few days before my satellite demo at the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society hamfest (RARSfest), I put the word out to satellite operators on mailing lists, Facebooks, Twitters, and even good old fashioned web forums, and boy did they come calling!
Without a doubt, I have never made so many QSOs (contacts) on one satellite pass. What a great demo. Thanks to all the hams that contacted me:
01- HP2VX - Virgilo- Panama 02 - 9Y4D - Christopher - Trinidad and Tobago 03 - N3JNX - Joseph - Pennsylvania 04- W5PFG - Clayton - Texas 05 - WH6ETF - Brandon - Florida 06 - NA1SA - Loon - Pennsylvania 07 - N4DCW - Michael - Kentucky 08 - W5RRR - Johnson Space Center - operated by John AB5SS 09 - W5CBF - Hector - Louisiana 10 - NS3L - Steve - Pennsylvania 11 - KJ4EU - Jerald - Kentucky 12 - K3RRR - Robert - Maryland 13 - K9KFX - Dru - Indiana 14 - AB1OC - Fred - New Hampshire 15 - VE2OTA - Donald - Quebec Canada 16 - N9LQ - Joel - Illonois 17 - K3RLD - Roy - Pennsylvania 18 - KE2QI - Robert - New York
This was on the 2019-04-20 - 1719 UTC - AO-91 pass.
Equipment:
Alaskan Arrow antenna with two of three boom sections assembled. Kenwood TM-V71A Bioenno 12V 9aH LiFePO4
You can see my FM mobile radio body support system here:
https://spacecomms.wordpress.com/mobile-radio-body-support/
RARSfest: https://www.rarsfest.org/
Sponsored by Nordic PC, M2 Antenna Systems, Arrow Antenna, and Dog Park Software.
https://nordicpc.com https://m2inc.com https://dogparksoftware.com http://arrowantennas.com
Vertical video ;-) courtesy Jelmer Tiete @jelmt, also the thumbnail is from him. Thanks Jelmer!
73, John Brier KG4AKV