Hello All,

Today, 27th September 2006 at 1048 Hours UTC, I had a 27 degree pass of HITSAT over West Malaysia.

I am very happy to announce that I heard its CW signal on 437.275 MHz +/- as soon as the satellite was about 0.3 degrees in elevation. This is also the first time I am hearing a signal from this satellite.

I have recorded the entire pass and those who are interested may download the MP3 recording at http://www.9w2qc.net/hitsat/hitsat.mp3. The size of this file is about 5.2 MB and is about 11 minutes in duration.

I was using Object-B keps (29480) as announced by Mineo-San (JE9PEL) earlier.

Equipments used were ICOM IC-910H and 2 x Diamond A430S15 (15 Element) UHF Yagi, Vertically Polarized. Unfortunately, my preamp has failed to work, so no preamp was used to copy this signal.

73, Sion Chow Q. C., 9W2QC.