Right. The first seven were all issued prior to AO-10. For the record, the first to actually work 100 DXCC entities via satellite was Pat, G3IOR. He made heavy use of tropo scatter. Ever the good sport, Pat came over to the States and presented Ben, W2BXA, with Certificate No. 1 at the AMSAT AGM.
73 Ray W2RS Hey Ray... long time. I was AC5DK back on RS-12/13... I know we worked because as I recall you were on about every pass. X^D Anyway, I don't know if it was submitted for an official DXCC, but I seem to remember a CQ article about a DXer that worked 100 countries on RS-12/13 ALONE. Could be one of the guys that already had Sat DXCC and couldn't submit a second time. Just wondering if you remember that... Impressive use of the propagation skip tactic to work birds that were below local horizon.
Quite an accomplishment by John!!! I'm not even sure I could figure out enough countries to work in any footprint to even reach 100! So good on him!
73, Kevin N4UFO
The op you are thinking of was N4ZC, one of my first satellite QSOs. See http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200202/msg00707.html
73, Drew KO4MA
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin M via AMSAT-BB Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite DXCC
Right. The first seven were all issued prior to AO-10. For the record, the first to actually work 100 DXCC entities via satellite was Pat, G3IOR. He made heavy use of tropo scatter. Ever the good sport, Pat came over to the States and presented Ben, W2BXA, with Certificate No. 1 at the AMSAT AGM.
73 Ray W2RS Hey Ray... long time. I was AC5DK back on RS-12/13... I know we worked because as I recall you were on about every pass. X^D Anyway, I don't know if it was submitted for an official DXCC, but I seem to remember a CQ article about a DXer that worked 100 countries on RS-12/13 ALONE. Could be one of the guys that already had Sat DXCC and couldn't submit a second time. Just wondering if you remember that... Impressive use of the propagation skip tactic to work birds that were below local horizon.
Quite an accomplishment by John!!! I'm not even sure I could figure out enough countries to work in any footprint to even reach 100! So good on him!
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Thanks Drew, That actually should have been an off list e-mail (oops!) but I appreciate the response all the same. I didn't realize it was N4ZC... he is now a silent key (this past August), but he lived just to the south of me in a suburb of Charlotte. Never met him in person and never worked him on air, but used to listen to him work EU DX... and very good op, nice person. And I was so impressed with that accomplishment! I think I managed one decent OTH QSO on RS-12/13 to the Czech Republic... and in actuality the other station was doing the OTH part. Anyway, RIP Roger N4ZC.
73, thanks for the info! Kevin N4UFO
The op you are thinking of was N4ZC, one of my first satellite QSOs. See http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200202/msg00707.html
73, Drew KO4MA
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin M via AMSAT-BB Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite DXCC
Right. The first seven were all issued prior to AO-10. For the record, the first to actually work 100 DXCC entities via satellite was Pat, G3IOR. He made heavy use of tropo scatter. Ever the good sport, Pat came over to the States and presented Ben, W2BXA, with Certificate No. 1 at the AMSAT AGM.
73 Ray W2RS Hey Ray... long time. I was AC5DK back on RS-12/13... I know we worked because as I recall you were on about every pass. X^D Anyway, I don't know if it was submitted for an official DXCC, but I seem to remember a CQ article about a DXer that worked 100 countries on RS-12/13 ALONE. Could be one of the guys that already had Sat DXCC and couldn't submit a second time. Just wondering if you remember that... Impressive use of the propagation skip tactic to work birds that were below local horizon.
Quite an accomplishment by John!!! I'm not even sure I could figure out enough countries to work in any footprint to even reach 100! So good on him!
73, Kevin N4UFO _______________________________________________ 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
Drew, Thanks for sharing. I really miss those RS Birds! They were GREAT!! 73, Bob K8BL
From: Andrew Glasbrenner [email protected] To: 'Kevin M' [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite DXCC
The op you are thinking of was N4ZC, one of my first satellite QSOs. See http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200202/msg00707.html
73, Drew KO4MA
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin M via AMSAT-BB Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite DXCC
Right. The first seven were all issued prior to AO-10. For the record, the first to actually work 100 DXCC entities via satellite was Pat, G3IOR. He made heavy use of tropo scatter. Ever the good sport, Pat came over to the States and presented Ben, W2BXA, with Certificate No. 1 at the AMSAT AGM.
73 Ray W2RS Hey Ray... long time. I was AC5DK back on RS-12/13... I know we worked because as I recall you were on about every pass. X^D Anyway, I don't know if it was submitted for an official DXCC, but I seem to remember a CQ article about a DXer that worked 100 countries on RS-12/13 ALONE. Could be one of the guys that already had Sat DXCC and couldn't submit a second time. Just wondering if you remember that... Impressive use of the propagation skip tactic to work birds that were below local horizon.
Quite an accomplishment by John!!! I'm not even sure I could figure out enough countries to work in any footprint to even reach 100! So good on him!
73, Kevin N4UFO _______________________________________________ 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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