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After the chaos of AO-91, I prepped to get ready for CAS-4B at 1929z. This time, I pulled out the stops. I tuned up quickly at AOS, and started calling CQ with all the watts, smack dab in the middle of the passband. There were stations all around me, but none of them were hearing each other.. as opposed to them, I could actually hear. I worked KB6LTY quickly, followed by WD9EWK, and then just kept following the bird east. 12 minutes later I lost the bird behind some buildings after working a VE2. 14 total stations logged, California to Quebec, in 1 pass. The crowd went nuts. I spent the next 2 hours showing local hams how to improve their arrows by using things like good coax, and a couple of the kids mentioned how sitting around with headphones turning dials was boring, but working satellites looked like fun. After that I packed up my stuff and headed back home, and didn't make another contact til after 1800z on Sunday.
For ops wanting to get more folks interested, THIS is the way to do it. Excellent job! I worked you (K4LRG) on that pass. CAS-4A and B were our best producers (26 and 20 QSOs), I think my best run of the weekend was 9 QSOs on 4B the following pass.
I shared a shelter with our GOTA station, and showed satellite ops to our visitors, but not with THAT degree of success.
73 Steve KS1G
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Stephan Greene