Hi All,

I have been emailing back and forth with Jens, DL7VTX, over the past day or so, and he wanted me to fill you all in on a few of his trip details.

********** Message 1:

Hi Zack ,

Tnx qso & qsl , I will send qsl direct if printed in abt 1..2 month . Was vy enjoyed working via sats during hikes at this very beautiful small tropical island . Had always good takeoffs either at sea - level or in 500...860 mtrs elevation .

RIG : 2 Watts RF ; Handheld Kenwood TH-D7E & RH-770 telescope duoband ant.. see pictures

I also had several aprs-contacts via NO-44 , once via ISS and once to KP4 digi from top of Saba-Isl.

vy 73s , best wishes and cul de Jens , dl7vtx

********** Message 2:

Hello Zack ,

Yes please feel free to foward this to the amsat-bb board .

additional info :

I wkd as many as 40 diffrent stns. via AO-27 and AO-51 from Saba - Isl. and Saint Marteen , last day at 29.th Jan.2011 also from Sint Maarten PJ7 Maho-Beach but only last reachable orbit of AO51 not got through the jam of stations at saturday night of course anymore ,sri.

From PJ6 I wkd. many W1,2,3,4,5, 8,9,0 , also FY,VE3, YV,KP4,TI,HI,HK,CO , EA8

hrd W7 fm DN45 ,DN42 PY and LU but not got trough the commercial-qrm or qro-jam at that time of orbits when real dx > 3000 miles would be possible .

Was real fun work all you folks in this hemisphere - while try to make contacts via FM-SATs & ISS aprs-digi with qrp its much harder or really not possible at all in Central - Europe due to qrm ..

RIG : 2 Watts RF ; Handheld Kenwood TH-D7E & RH-770 telescope duoband ant. DC-Pwr. 4 x R6 AA Battery-Pack .

. PJ6 / PJ7 /FS QSLs ready in March 2011, promised

qsl via HC DL7VTX ; info at qrz.com or via bureau

73s Jens DL7VTX

my activity in DL see : www.df0yy.de and @findu.com/dl7vtx-1

73!

Zack KD8KSN