In a message dated 20/03/2011 01:43:23 GMT Standard Time, bbjunkie@f2s.com writes:
Hi,
For a small club satellite presentation I will be mentioning the benefits of HEO over LEO and the range advantage.
Can anyone tell me the distance record set when AO-40 was alive?
Thanks
73
2i0VAX
Pete Hello Pete
I'm sure you will get lots of answers. But my own personal favourite response to a CQ call on AO-40 from London UK was a Japanese station located at one of the south pole research stations.
London to Perth Australia on AO-13 is also in my log, but it was impossible to get from here in the UK to ZL.
My local club also took equipment to ZC4 in Cyprus and C56 (Gambia) making about 200 QSOs from each location. DX-Peditioning was popular on the HEO sats.
Happy days...........
Good luck with the talk
David G0MRF
Hi Pete,
I'm sending you a couple of links of more possible ham operating possibilities a HEO could provide ... in addition to the nice DX we enjoyed.
A few years ago when another HEO seemed feasible I let my imagination go to work and wrote a couple of "proposals" for amateur radio missions ...
1. Use HEO for communication links in large-scale Incident Command Systems. I wrote a symposium paper for 2008 on this topic and CQ VHF Magazine also published it: http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/CQVHF_Eagle_ACP_Emcomm.pdf
2. Use HEO to expand ARISS School Contact time from 10 minutes to whole orbit coverage (AMSAT Symposium 2009): http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/Education_AMSAT_Eagle.pdf
(Note both of these were strawman proposals that haven't gone anywhere until flying high becomes a viable option again. Had AO-40 survived we could have started on these projects as well.)
Perhaps this will give an additional talking point or two in addition to the DX. Good luck with the talk!
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
Sure, SOB SOB for sure again... Dee
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of JoAnne Maenpaa Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 11:26 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-40 range record ??
Hi Pete,
I'm sending you a couple of links of more possible ham operating possibilities a HEO could provide ... in addition to the nice DX we enjoyed.
A few years ago when another HEO seemed feasible I let my imagination go to work and wrote a couple of "proposals" for amateur radio missions ...
1. Use HEO for communication links in large-scale Incident Command Systems. I wrote a symposium paper for 2008 on this topic and CQ VHF Magazine also published it: http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/CQVHF_Eagle_ACP_Emcomm.pdf
2. Use HEO to expand ARISS School Contact time from 10 minutes to whole orbit coverage (AMSAT Symposium 2009): http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/Education_AMSAT_Eagle.pdf
(Note both of these were strawman proposals that haven't gone anywhere until flying high becomes a viable option again. Had AO-40 survived we could have started on these projects as well.)
Perhaps this will give an additional talking point or two in addition to the DX. Good luck with the talk!
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
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