Lots of fun using my old AO-40 (sobsob) gear. Worked Scotty-VE6ITV solid contact. Heard XE2BHL, I think he sorta heard me, near his LOS. Tracking the fast moving AO-51 with a three foot dish by manually is tricky, I have a LVB tracker on order. Thankyou Drew, and the other control ops, this is neat stuff.
73 Bob W7LRD
Hi Bob,
Missed you on the western pass just now. I worked WC7V in DN45, and heard a very familiar sounding "Hola!", but didn't catch the call sign. The rest of the pass was me calling CQ, all the way down to about 2 degrees above the north-western horizon.
Greg KO6TH
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:29:07 +0000 From: w7lrd@comcast.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 U/S
Lots of fun using my old AO-40 (sobsob) gear. Worked Scotty-VE6ITV solid contact. Heard XE2BHL, I think he sorta heard me, near his LOS. Tracking the fast moving AO-51 with a three foot dish by manually is tricky, I have a LVB tracker on order. Thankyou Drew, and the other control ops, this is neat stuff.
73 Bob W7LRD
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