Satellite capable hams along NW Africa coast?
Pondering things today, I wonder if there are any satellite capable hams along the NW African coast? I have short windows into Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, and maybe a little further south.
Anyone down there, or know someone that is?
73, Drew KO4MA
Hi all!! Easier to plan a trip, at least for satellites. There might be some frequent flier miles in the offing.
Wonder what the license and customs information for those countries is? Political stability?? Don't want to be in the middle of a shooting war. Google is my friend. Fun to think about.
Norm n3ykf
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
Pondering things today, I wonder if there are any satellite capable hams along the NW African coast? I have short windows into Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, and maybe a little further south.
Anyone down there, or know someone that is?
73, Drew KO4MA
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--- On Sat, 3/11/12, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
Pondering things today, I wonder if there are any satellite capable hams along the NW African coast? I have short windows into Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, and maybe a little further south.
CN8LL in Morocco may be your best bet.
It's a bleak region for amateur radio, the last figures released by IARU showed the following number of amateur stations:
Algeria - 60 Morocco - 176 Western Sahara - no figures presumably zero hams Mauritania - 20 Senegal - 41
That's 297 hams total. You could take the percentage of US Hams who are AMSAT-NA members and apply it to 297 to get the number likely to be active.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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