Hi All, Last night I thought I heard a LU5OJ? on HO-68 right after AOS. If you know who this might have been, please let me know. I'm also interested in schedules for SSB QSOs with new stations/grids/countries, especially those stretching the footprint on HO-68, during linear transponder passes.
73, Drew KO4MA EL88pg
That was LU5BOJ/O from FG75 whom I worked at 01:52 UTC. We worked briefly as he was about to lose the bird. Not sure why he used the portable designation. It was O for Oscar as per his phonetics, and not a zero. Perhaps it's required in his country while working through a satellite? It's interesting that his first name is Oscar.
That's the first station I have heard from Argentina on any of the birds.
73 de W4AS Sebastian, EL95
On Dec 28, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Hi All, Last night I thought I heard a LU5OJ? on HO-68 right after AOS. If you know who this might have been, please let me know. I'm also interested in schedules for SSB QSOs with new stations/grids/countries, especially those stretching the footprint on HO-68, during linear transponder passes.
73, Drew KO4MA EL88pg
Sebastian wrote:
That was LU5BOJ/O from FG75 whom I worked at 01:52 UTC. We worked briefly as he was about to lose the bird. Not sure why he used the portable designation. It was O for Oscar as per his phonetics, and not a zero. Perhaps it's required in his country while working through a satellite? It's interesting that his first name is Oscar.
That's the first station I have heard from Argentina on any of the birds.
73 de W4AS Sebastian, EL95
Awesome! I called him but had another station reply to me. I'll keep an eye out for him on the air and try to find an e-mail to set up a schedule. I've worked LU on AO-40 and I think AO-10, but I don't think I was able to get a QSL for those QSOs. I assume you worked him en Espanol?
73, Drew
Hi Sebastian!
That was LU5BOJ/O from FG75 whom I worked at 01:52 UTC. We worked briefly as he was about to lose the bird. Not sure why he used the portable designation. It was O for Oscar as per his phonetics, and not a zero. Perhaps it's required in his country while working through a satellite?
You're 100% correct.
That callsign LU5BOJ/O would be a valid call in Argentina. Unlike in many places like the continental US where the digit indicates the area where the call was issued, in Argentina the first letter after the digit is used for that. LU5BOJ is a call issued for the city of Buenos Aires (also known as "Capital Federal"), separate from the province of the same name that surrounds that city. It is like how the US capital city Washington DC is separate from the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. The "/O" shows he was operating from somewhere outside his home "province"; in this case, LU5BOJ was in Salta province in the northwest of the country.
You can see a map and how those indicators match up (thanks to my friend Diego LU8ADX) at:
http://www.lu8adx.com.ar/mapa/index.htm
That's the first station I have heard from Argentina on any of the birds.
Congratulations! Maybe more will show up on HO-68 or even AO-7 if equipped to work the linear transponders.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
(I was down there in 2004, operating briefly as LU/WD9EWK. Foreign hams do not have to put the indicators like "/O" after their calls to show where in the country they are operating from as the locals )
Drew May be LU5BOJ , Oscar . I contacted him during HO68 pass last night. 73
PY5LF LUCIANO FABRICIO CURITIBA-PR-BRAZIL GG54JM http://www.qrz.com/db/py5lf www.falautomation.com.br
-----Mensagem original----- De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Em nome de Andrew Glasbrenner Enviada em: segunda-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2009 13:35 Para: Amsat-BB Assunto: [amsat-bb] LU or other DX on HO-68
Hi All, Last night I thought I heard a LU5OJ? on HO-68 right after AOS. If you know who this might have been, please let me know. I'm also interested in schedules for SSB QSOs with new stations/grids/countries, especially those stretching the footprint on HO-68, during linear transponder passes.
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Andrew Glasbrenner -
Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) -
PY5LF -
Sebastian