Bob (N3LL) and I (LU6QI) made a QSO on AO7 in SSB Mode B at 22.22 UTC on April 5, 2011, during orbit 66529. The distance between our respective QTHs is 6914.6 km. I also contacted Adrian ZF8/ZF2AE a few days before, covering agn more than 6000 km. I use some antennas from Cushcratf (Oscar Boomers) 22XB (14db) in 2mts and 738XB (15.5 db) in 70cm with an elevation-azimuth rotor. There is some kind of smooth valley to the north and west of my location and it looks vy clear in those directions, so I can listen quite often this satellite almost at the horizon level. I have worked on AO7 Mode B other stations from North America and in some cases they used portable antennas or yagis fixed at some angle (named 20 degrees up) and we could still make a QSO. I am QRV for other stations who would like to attempt a QSO either in SSB or CW. My grid locator is FF66TQ. My mail is lu6quintas@gmail.com Tnx, Best 73 de --luis LU6QI
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Luis Quintas