Hello All,
I was quite surprised today to work Neil, ES6DO in Estonia just before 18:00Z on AO-7 mode B. I was listening to that pass with the hopes of working a few UK stations I heard a few days ago, and was just about to shut the rig down at the end of the pass, when I heard a CW station calling CQ. At first I though it was an Irish station with an EI prefix, but two dits turned out to be three - ES rather than EI! With less than one minute to make the contact on that pass, it all worked out with a new grid and new DX in my log, and Neil's first VE QSO. Many thanks Neil!
Now that is what I would call fun and exciting...
David Donaldson wb7dru..En34 Sent with pride using 2.5G Verizon Mobile Email
---Original Message--- From: "Randy Morden" [email protected] Sent: 12/5/2012 11:43 pm To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 DX
Hello All,
I was quite surprised today to work Neil, ES6DO in Estonia just before 18:00Z on AO-7 mode B. I was listening to that pass with the hopes of working a few UK stations I heard a few days ago, and was just about to shut the rig down at the end of the pass, when I heard a CW station calling CQ. At first I though it was an Irish station with an EI prefix, but two dits turned out to be three - ES rather than EI! With less than one minute to make the contact on that pass, it all worked out with a new grid and new DX in my log, and Neil's first VE QSO. Many thanks Neil!
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Nice Randy...stretching the footprint on old AO-7 never gets old... 73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Morden" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:40:27 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 DX
Hello All,
I was quite surprised today to work Neil, ES6DO in Estonia just before 18:00Z on AO-7 mode B. I was listening to that pass with the hopes of working a few UK stations I heard a few days ago, and was just about to shut the rig down at the end of the pass, when I heard a CW station calling CQ. At first I though it was an Irish station with an EI prefix, but two dits turned out to be three - ES rather than EI! With less than one minute to make the contact on that pass, it all worked out with a new grid and new DX in my log, and Neil's first VE QSO. Many thanks Neil!
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