Extreme DX FO29 Contact
Satellite friends and colleagues,
I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same conclusion.
After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/ ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw clip of the contact here:
If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact, and here's to many more.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI
Nice Job Dave and Christophe- I am trying the same from CN87wk. Not easy but worth the effort. "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer" 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle, Wa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Swanson" [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:59:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
Satellite friends and colleagues,
I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same conclusion.
After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/ ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw clip of the contact here:
If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact, and here's to many more.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
That is awesome and I am mentioning it on the colorado amateur satellite net tonight.
What was the degree that the contact was made at?
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Bob- W7LRD [email protected] wrote:
Nice Job Dave and Christophe- I am trying the same from CN87wk. Not easy but worth the effort. "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer" 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle, Wa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Swanson" [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:59:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
Satellite friends and colleagues,
I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same conclusion.
After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/ ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw clip of the contact here:
If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact, and here's to many more.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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SatPC32 shows that at 17:32 UTC, KG5CCI had 0.2 degrees of elevation and F4CQA also had 0.2 degrees of elevation.
KG5CCI had a natural 1,056 foot tower at his disposal and F4CQA has quite an antenna array at his home station. Great job to both! Doubly impressive that this was a random contact.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Skyler F [email protected] wrote:
That is awesome and I am mentioning it on the colorado amateur satellite net tonight.
What was the degree that the contact was made at?
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Bob- W7LRD [email protected] wrote:
Nice Job Dave and Christophe- I am trying the same from CN87wk. Not easy but worth the effort. "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer" 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle, Wa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Swanson" [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:59:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
Satellite friends and colleagues,
I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same conclusion.
After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/ ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw clip of the contact here:
If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact, and here's to many more.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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Congratulations! Hearing about this kind of stuff makes me want to keep playing radio.
Steve AI9IN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Swanson" [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:59 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
Satellite friends and colleagues,
I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same conclusion.
After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/ ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw clip of the contact here:
If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact, and here's to many more.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
Steve Kristoff [email protected]
"A few chords strummed on a ukulele, enough to please a few others beside yourself, does more good in this world than the combined efforts of all the financiers and politicians that ever lived." - Frank Littig, Littig's New Harmony Self Instructor Chords for Ukulele, Banjuke or Taro Patch Fiddle, Chart Music Publishing House, Chicago, Illinois, 1924
Dave and Chris
Congratulations for the great contact! It is very impressive!
It is the combination of a bunch of small details led by the skills and persistence of the operators.
Good job!!
73!
Hector, CO6CBF/W5CBF
-----Mensaje original----- De: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Dave Swanson Enviado el: Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:00 PM Para: [email protected]; [email protected] Asunto: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
Satellite friends and colleagues,
I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same conclusion.
After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/ ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw clip of the contact here:
If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact, and here's to many more.
73!
-Dave, KG5CCI _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
participants (6)
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Bob- W7LRD -
Dave Swanson -
Hector W5CBF/CO6CBF -
Paul Stoetzer -
Skyler F -
Steve Kristoff