Heck Greg ... I'm plenty older than AO-7, but I feel like a little kid every time I hear my CW signal coming back from her. Working CW using a straight key through AO-7 is about the coolest mix of the old and new I can think of.
Now, if somebody in Alaska will just hear me calling "CQ AK" some evening on Mode B....
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL -------------- Original message from "Greg D." ko6th_greg@hotmail.com: --------------
Yeah, this is one grand old bird (the satellite, I mean). If you look at the planetary statistics, the median age of the human population is about 26.8 as of 2000, and growing slowly. That makes AO-07, at age 35, significantly older than more than half of the people on Earth.
Greg KO6TH (one of the few older than AO-07...)
From: glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: gordonjcp@gjcp.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:36:24 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Less than lightening Results
I LOL'ed. AO-7 was launched one month or so after I was born, but I only took 9 months to build, so it's sort of a toss up!
73, Drew KO4MA
I try to listen to at least one pass a week, just out of respect.
I mean, AO-7 is nearly as old as I am.
Gordon MM3YEQ (is feeling his age a bit today)
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