Geoff Dover G4AFJ sent this to me today.
You may be interested in this one from this week's ARRL DX Bulletin.
KAZAKHSTAN, UN. Special event stations R50YG and R50SK are QRV from Baikonur until April 14 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first flight of Yuri Gagarin. This includes an entry in the Gagarin Cup contest. In addition, special call R50KEDR will be QRV on April 12 from 0507 to 0655z to commemorate the 108 minutes of Gagarin's first flight. QSL via operators' instructions.
73,
John G7HIA
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heath" g7hia@btinternet.com To: "Amsat" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:19 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Gagarin Anniversary
Geoff Dover G4AFJ sent this to me today.
You may be interested in this one from this week's ARRL DX Bulletin.
KAZAKHSTAN, UN. Special event stations R50YG and R50SK are QRV from Baikonur until April 14 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first flight of Yuri Gagarin. This includes an entry in the Gagarin Cup contest. In addition, special call R50KEDR will be QRV on April 12 from 0507 to 0655z to commemorate the 108 minutes of Gagarin's first flight. QSL via operators' instructions.
73,
John G7HIA
Hi John G7HIA
Just for curiosity. Was Yury Gagarin a licensed radio Ham and what his call letter ? Anybody had a QSO with him ?
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
2011/4/8 i8cvs domenico.i8cvs@tin.it
Just for curiosity. Was Yury Gagarin a licensed radio Ham and what his call letter ? Anybody had a QSO with him ?
I think K2UBC discussed this aspect here on amsat-bb some years ago and the outcome was "probably not", i.e. there is no proof Yuri G was UA1LO, which has been a common belief based some QSL with Gagarin's picture on QSL from UA1LO whose name happened to be Yuri as well.
Anyhow I had yesterday a QSO on HF with U5ARTEK, a clubstation whose page on qrz.com shows a picture of Yuri Gagarin operating from the same club station back in 1960's.
So Yuri has probably been at least a "2nd operator" ;)
Anyway there is plenty of anniversary stations on the air at least on HF (hopefully also on sats), at least the following:
R50YG "Yuri Gagarin" R50SK "Sergey Korolev" RG50D RG50K RG50F Star City training center RG50C Landing Site RG50G R1961G U5ARTEK/A R3K Energija Space Flight Control Center
73 de Ari OH3KAV Tampere, Finland (grid: KP11)
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