Gary (K4MF) and I (LU6QI) made several attempts during more than a month (we tried on more than 15 passes for sure) for a QSO on AO7 in cw in Mode A or B. Finally on Jan 30, 2011 we succeed. We made a fine short qso in Mode B at 2315 UTC during the orbit # 65714. It was a very clear copy with the satellite just above the horizon. The distance between Gary’s location (EL98JG) and mine (FF66TQ) is 7024,45 Km. I don’t know of any other qso between USA and Argentina on low altitude satellites, at least I never saw it reported on the AO7 Log.
Nice work, remember,
"if it were easy, everyone would be doing it".
73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Quintas" lu6quintas@gmail.com To: Amsat-BB@amsat.org Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:08:05 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] K4-LU QSO on AO7
Gary (K4MF) and I (LU6QI) made several attempts during more than a month (we tried on more than 15 passes for sure) for a QSO on AO7 in cw in Mode A or B. Finally on Jan 30, 2011 we succeed. We made a fine short qso in Mode B at 2315 UTC during the orbit # 65714. It was a very clear copy with the satellite just above the horizon. The distance between Gary’s location (EL98JG) and mine (FF66TQ) is 7024,45 Km. I don’t know of any other qso between USA and Argentina on low altitude satellites, at least I never saw it reported on the AO7 Log.
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