Dave,

Thanks for being up at that hour to work across the pond on FO-29! It would be nice to see a bunch of European calls in the W7O satellite log.

I'll be on AO-73 this (Friday) evening as W7O, for the pass around 0458 UTC. On Saturday morning, I'll work 3 passes before I get tied up with work-related stuff...

SO-50 at 1422 UTC FO-29 at 1430 UTC AO-73 at 1651 UTC

From what I've heard, John K8YSE/7 made the first

W7O satellite QSO this evening on SO-50 at 0011 UTC. Christy KB6LTY was on the W7O mic from southern California for that QSO. I know others have been working HF as W7O, and I'm gaining operators and filling more slots in the W7O HF schedule. Sounds like there have been some interesting stories from stations working W7O, including some who worked the satellite in its first lifetime in the 1970s.

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to work as W7O, whether on the satellites or the HF bands. The number of W7O lookups on QRZ was reset when I put the current information on there, and several hundred lookups have been recorded already. There is interest among the ham community in this old satellite. :-)

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Dave Webb KB1PVH kb1pvh@gmail.com wrote:

I will be on the 09:00 UTC FO-29 pass as W7O to give European stations a chance to get it in the log.

Dave-KB1PVH

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