There is something very intrinsically  powerfull about this process/event.  I hear it time and time again.  For me it was RS12.  Why does hearing your call/name or your own voice come back from a little box several hundred high, traveling at about 17,000 miles per hour have such a moving impact in our minds and lives?   As I mentioned in a earlier post, "the novelty never really gets old".  I just recently got my mobile rig up and running and it was RS12 all over again!  I accept the fact we or most of us are part of a unique group of individuals that derive profound pleasure in this activity.  I have tried to explain this to "normal" people and they just look at me funny.  At times I center my day around a computer print out.  My xyl has jokingly said ,"you need a intervention".  There is no doubt in my mind this post will strike a nerve to many readers.

see you on the birds

73 Bob W7LRD

----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg D." [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:28:28 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 is Working Fine - My First Satellite QSO Ever!

Congrats, Steve!  It's a feeling you will never forget.  (Mine was 18 years ago - RS-10 - and I can still remember like it was yesterday.)

Greg  KO6TH

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:29:03 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb]  AO-51 is Working Fine - My First Satellite QSO Ever!

I am so excited right now that I can barely type because I'm dancing a jig.

AO-51 was working fine for the 2158Z, 4-13-2011 pass over my QTH (EM95md) during which I made my FIRST successful satellite QSO ever with K8YSE. Thank You K8YSE!!

My apologies to K8YSE for getting a bit tongue-tied but I was so excited to hear him repeat my call sign back and ask for the QSL that I about swallowed the microphone :-)  What makes it even better was the fact that I make it a point of recording the passes so I have an audio recording of my first AO-51 QSO.

A big thanks to K6LCS (Clint) and his web site http://web.me.com/clintbradford/k6lcs/Home.html for all the tips and inspiration to give satellites a try.

WooHoo!!!!!!

73, Steve KJ4FEL

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