About a dozen stations were heard making contacts on LilacSat-2 at 00:11Z, orbit # 135. From my QTH in Texas, EM21, I was hearing stations as far north as EN37. This orbit put LilacSat-2 almost directly up the center of the USA. I was able to make several contacts using 5 watts and an Elk antenna.
73 Clayton W5PFG EM21hs
2 contacts (Patrick and Kerry, long time no worked !) from CN82 from a very rusty sat operator. But, this will be a good bird for new operators to get some contacts. (FYI, just used HRD sat program v6x to tune and it worked pretty good- pass directly overhead.)
73, Ted K7TRK
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clayton W5PFG Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 5:52 PM To: 'amsat bb' Subject: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-2 FM Transponder at 00:11 UTC, 29-September
About a dozen stations were heard making contacts on LilacSat-2 at 00:11Z, orbit # 135. From my QTH in Texas, EM21, I was hearing stations as far north as EN37. This orbit put LilacSat-2 almost directly up the center of the USA. I was able to make several contacts using 5 watts and an Elk antenna.
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