Congratulations! Well done Fernando.

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From: Fernando Ramirez Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 20:57 To: AMSAT -BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Thank you! CONUS 488 Grids Completed!

Good evening fellow satelliteers!

Finally, I was able to connect with an operator in FN65!

Today, I had the privilege of working Ken, VE3HLS, on XW-2B during his trip to New Brunswick. We completed our QSO when the satellite was at 2º for me.

I would like to publicly express my gratitude to Ken for going out of his way to help bring down the "white whale", and last grid needed in the 488 CONUS.

I want to also thank all the satellite operators that made this possible. All credit goes to them! Extra thanks to all those who travelled and helped with multiple grid squares. This has been a fun and exciting 2 years and 3 months of operating Ham Radio Satellites.

My apologies for the long list. These are the unique callsigns and number of grids I worked them on:

NJ7H 92 W5PFG 31 KG5CCI 24 N6UA 22 WD9EWK 17 AK4WQ 16 N4UFO 16 N9IP 14 KL7R 11 VE3HLS 11 AI6GS 10 AC0RA 9 AA5PK 7 N8RO 7 KK4FEM 6 W4FS 6 K8BL 5 KM4RTS 5 KO4MA 5 N8HM 5 WA7HQD 5 WI7P 5 AA0CW 4 K8OE 4 K0D 3 KI4RO 3 KL7CN/W6 3 KM4LAO 3 N0JE 3 N1AIA 3 N7AGF 3 N9EAT 3 NX9B 3 W1PA 3 AD0TM 2 K6R 2 KA4H 2 KB1PVH 2 KB1SF 2 KC1EXK 2 KD8ATF 2 KE0FJI 2 KE4AL 2 KG4AKV 2 KG5FQT 2 KX9X/7 2 NR0T 2 NS3L 2 W0N 2 WA5KBH 2 WC7V 2 WE4B 2 WN9Q 2 AA5CK 1 AA9LC 1 HP/KG5FQX/MM 1 K0MDJ 1 K3RRR 1 K4RGK 1 K4YYL 1 K5L 1 K5T 1 K6FW 1 K6G/MM 1 K8DBD 1 KA3HSW 1 KA6SIP 1 KB0VXN 1 KB6A 1 KC3GFZ 1 KC4LE 1 KC5JSV 1 KC7MG 1 KC8QDQ 1 KC9ELU 1 KD8CAO 1 KE3LB 1 KE7JIM 1 KE8AKW 1 KF4FC 1 KG4ZQY 1 KG5AYB 1 KG5FQX 1 KG5GJT 1 KG5IPA 1 KG7EZ 1 KJ4EU 1 KK4OYJ/W0 1 KK8Y 1 KL7CN/W7 1 KM4MYW 1 KM4SYN 1 KM4THG 1 KU4UV 1 KX9X/1 1 KX9X/5 1 N0VVV 1 N1JEZ 1 N5UWY 1 N5UWY/VE2 1 N7DFL 1 N7SMT 1 N8MS 1 NJ7H/VE2 1 NJ7H/VE3 1 NJ7H/VE4 1 NM3B 1 VA3ECO 1 VE2FU 1 VE3/KA4H 1 W0DHB 1 W0JW 1 W0LSB 1 W1AW 1 W1GKT 1 W2JV 1 W2LI 1 W3ZM/9 1 W4DTA 1 W4UOO 1 W5GRP 1 W5RKN/100 1 W6GMT 1 W7JSD 1 W7QL 1 W8AB 1 W8MV/4 1 W9RF 1 WA6FWF 1 WB3CSY 1 WB9YIG 1 WI9I 1 WQ6C 1 WR7X 1 WU2M 1 WV2I 1

Again, thank you to all of them!

73

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