Here are our newest award recipients and quite a good batch we have this time.
AMSAT Communication Achievement Award
Steve Kristoff, AI9IN #565 Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #566 Carlton Noll, KA4H #567 (also a new member to AMSAT)
------ AMSAT Sexagesimal Award
Frank Westphal, K6FW #169 Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #170 Carlton Noll, KA4H #171
------ AMSAT Century Award
Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #45
------ AMSAT South Africa Communication Achievement Award
Frank Westphal, K6FW #US193 Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #US194 Carlton Noll, KA4H #US195
73...bruce
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html
Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
Congratulations to all the award recipients!
I'd like to point out a couple of them. First, congrats to Hector on the Century Award. The Century Award is tough enough to complete from the East Coast of the United States, but Hector managed to complete it from Cuba. He made many of these QSOs with homebrew equipment and had the additional handicap of not being able to use AO-7's Mode B transponder due to Cuban regulations, so he had to wait until FO-29 was near apogee on the right passes to make his longest distance QSOs.
Second, congratulations to Carl on the Sexagesimal Award. Like me, he has operated solely with portable equipment and low power and he appears to be on the way to beating my pace to the Century Award (it took me 23 months from when I started getting on the air daily, Carl has been on for only about a year).
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Bruce kk5do@amsat.org wrote:
Here are our newest award recipients and quite a good batch we have this time.
AMSAT Communication Achievement Award
Steve Kristoff, AI9IN #565 Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #566 Carlton Noll, KA4H #567 (also a new member to AMSAT)
AMSAT Sexagesimal Award
Frank Westphal, K6FW #169 Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #170 Carlton Noll, KA4H #171
AMSAT Century Award
Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #45
AMSAT South Africa Communication Achievement Award
Frank Westphal, K6FW #US193 Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #US194 Carlton Noll, KA4H #US195
73...bruce
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html
Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
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Thanks Paul!
Actually, the AMSAT Century Award has been the hardest award in my amateur radio career. The lack of AO-7 mode B made it even harder.
Thanks very much to all the operators who made it possible and special thanks to the DX stations that accepted the challenge of an extreme QSO.
73!
Hector, CO6CBF/W5CBF
On Aug 13, 2015 6:40 AM, "Paul Stoetzer" n8hm@arrl.net wrote:
Congratulations to all the award recipients!
I'd like to point out a couple of them. First, congrats to Hector on the Century Award. The Century Award is tough enough to complete from the East Coast of the United States, but Hector managed to complete it from Cuba. He made many of these QSOs with homebrew equipment and had the additional handicap of not being able to use AO-7's Mode B transponder due to Cuban regulations, so he had to wait until FO-29 was near apogee on the right passes to make his longest distance QSOs.
Second, congratulations to Carl on the Sexagesimal Award. Like me, he has operated solely with portable equipment and low power and he appears to be on the way to beating my pace to the Century Award (it took me 23 months from when I started getting on the air daily, Carl has been on for only about a year).
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Bruce kk5do@amsat.org wrote:
Here are our newest award recipients and quite a good batch we have this time.
AMSAT Communication Achievement Award
Steve Kristoff, AI9IN #565 Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #566 Carlton Noll, KA4H #567 (also a new member to AMSAT)
AMSAT Sexagesimal Award
Frank Westphal, K6FW #169 Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #170 Carlton Noll, KA4H #171
AMSAT Century Award
Hector Luis Martinez Sis, CO6CBF #45
AMSAT South Africa Communication Achievement Award
Frank Westphal, K6FW #US193 Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #US194 Carlton Noll, KA4H #US195
73...bruce
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html
Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
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