[amsat-bb] Re: An amazing AO-7 QSO last week, Brazil to Belgium

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

"Back in the day" (late 70's / early 80's) W1JR and I were both active
on AO-7 Mode B from FN42hn.  I believe he had two one-way QSOs with
KH6 but never completed a QSO.  Once he was heard, once he heard the
other station.  In those days, you had plastic cut-outs which you
overlapped on a piece of paper to see when the windows would
intersect.  I think the two were tangential, so there was only a very
tiny window during which a QSO was possible.

73 - Jim AD1C

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Mark Lunday<mlunday at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Brazil to Belgium.  Hey Tim, N3TL, you have been doing some of this type of
> planning with great success.  What is the longest QSO you have achieved?
> What tools are you using for planning on the low passes?  Your efforts are
> fascinating and we would like to know more.
>
> http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2009/ao7_brazil_belgium_contact.htm

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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us