I found one reference that mentioned that the ISS "circle of visibility" was around 5000 kM so your record of 3711 nautical miles sounds hard to beat.
Nice catch!
I think that Scott has the possibility of WAS via ISS from his location though ;-)
Ahh the benefits of living on the coasts...
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "jeff" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: [sarex] Re: NEW RECORD Set Via ISS
I worked England via ISS packet. The picture of my D-700 screen on my website shows a distance of 3711 for the contact I had with G8LMY, FM29pe to IO91vi. A quick check shows the distance from Hi to Ca as around 2500 miles. Can anyone beat 3711 NMI?
73 Jeff kb2m ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]" [email protected] To: "Scott- Extingflame" [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 6:04 PM Subject: [sarex] Re: NEW RECORD Set Via ISS
I have no information from any other attempts and am unaware of any "records" for this sort of activity so I can't say if yours would be a record or not. Congratulations on the success of your efforts.
Personally, I made a contact with VE1DX in Nova Scotia (from Houston) during a similar low elevation pass but never took the time to make the point to point distance calculations. Not sure how many other long shot contacts are out there that were never reported. Maybe your notice will prompt others to provide examples of other long distance contacts via
ISS
in various modes.
Kenneth - N5VHO
From: Scott- Extingflame [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sat 11/1/2008 3:35 PM To: [email protected]; Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] Subject: NEW RECORD Set Via ISS
Today at 1803 UTC, Ron AH6RH and I made the FIRST packet QSO/exchange
via
ISS's digipeater RS0ISS. We had several pings on my 1 minute 20 second mutual visibility pass between us. See http://www.ariss.net/
Ever since ISS packet/voice was activated, I was looking for a partner
on
the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii to do this. I sent out blind emails to all hams in the area. Looked at packet from Hawaii etc... Finally about 3 years ago, I met up with Ron, AH6RH who shared my goal. For the past few years we have been trying to make this first contact. Between ISS packet being off the air, and limited times to try with work etc, it finally became a reality today! I did my victory DX dance when Ron called me from Hawaii screaming in excitement!
Thanks to ARISS for it's support of amateur radio on the ISS.
73, Scott WA6LIE CM96eq
Kenneth,
Can you confirm this as a new distance record?
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