Congratulations! You beat me by 241.243 miles.
The distance between you in CM96eq & AH6RH in BL11ch is 3879.74 km (2410.868 miles)
My best: 09-02-2002 @ 14:30 I made pkt contact with PETER, W2SKY in FN13gd from CN87tr. A distance of 3491.51 km (2169.625 miles).
73 de <michael> KC7QYR Burien,WA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott- Extingflame" [email protected] To: [email protected]; "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]" [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:35 PM Subject: [sarex] 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/wlmailhtml:{B6E7A62F-23E5-48A8-A1AF-40037DC90145}mid://00000324/!x-usc: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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