Congrats, Betsy,

If you want to take it to the next level, send an APRS message to "email", with your email address as the first "word", and watch it drop into your in-tray on the other end. That means that you can send email to anyone on the planet from anywhere on the planet, even if you're out backpacking far from civilization. It's great when "civilization" passes overhead several times a day, and you've got the technology and skills to access it.

Did this through the ISS a few years back, standing on my front lawn with my Kenwood D7 and a whip antenna.

Greg KO6TH

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HI

This is for Wayne, W9AE

I apologize if I was a bit vague, but I was dancing around my living room and quite excited.

I "worked" NO-44 by digipeating packet data to the satellite and got a confirmation on the sat board that it heard me. I can't seem to get a solid ack back from it so I did not send a message to another user. However, I saw that somebody sent me a message but it didn't come through...my radio never heard it. I am only working 5 watts with an HT.

I hope this clears things up a bit. I'm new at this myself so that was my first NO-44 contact. Still dancing around and have made two more contacts since then.

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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 5:20 AM To: Greg D Cc: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RE NO-44 "worked" with HT and Elk

Hi Greg

Thanks for the congrats and the great advice.. I have done the email from the ISS, but I have to pre input the message on my HT. When making a contact via the ISS, while the bird is overhead, while holding the yagi and the HT means stopping, responding, hitting xmit and hoping that the bird is still overhead enough to get the contact through. I have been successful a few times but usually I'm not fast enough to get another packet in. I'll keep working on it though. I have to say it still makes me giddy. Ya gotta love this stuff!

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