[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 is Working Fine - My First Satellite QSO Ever!

[Bob- W7LRD]

There is something very intrinsically  powerfull about this process/event.  I hear it time and time again.  For me it was RS12.  Why does hearing your call/name or your own voice come back from a little box several hundred high, traveling at about 17,000 miles per hour have such a moving impact in our minds and lives?   As I mentioned in a earlier post, "the novelty never really gets old".  I just recently got my mobile rig up and running and it was RS12 all over again!  I accept the fact we or most of us are part of a unique group of individuals that derive profound pleasure in this activity.  I have tried to explain this to "normal" people and they just look at me funny.  At times I center my day around a computer print out.  My xyl has jokingly said ,"you need a intervention".  There is no doubt in my mind this post will strike a nerve to many readers. 

see you on the birds 

73 Bob W7LRD 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg at hotmail.com> 
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:28:28 PM 
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 is Working Fine - My First Satellite QSO Ever! 


Congrats, Steve!  It's a feeling you will never forget.  (Mine was 18 years ago - RS-10 - and I can still remember like it was yesterday.) 

Greg  KO6TH 


> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:29:03 -0700 
> From: davism294 at yahoo.com 
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org; Work-Sat at yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [amsat-bb]  AO-51 is Working Fine - My First Satellite QSO Ever! 
> 
> I am so excited right now that I can barely type because I'm dancing a jig. 
> 
> AO-51 was working fine for the 2158Z, 4-13-2011 pass over my QTH (EM95md) during 
> which I made my FIRST successful satellite QSO ever with K8YSE. Thank You 
> K8YSE!! 
> 
> My apologies to K8YSE for getting a bit tongue-tied but I was so excited to hear 
> him repeat my call sign back and ask for the QSL that I about swallowed the 
> microphone :-) 
>  What makes it even better was the fact that I make it a point of recording the 
> passes so I have an audio recording of my first AO-51 QSO. 
> 
> A big thanks to K6LCS (Clint) and his web 
> site http://web.me.com/clintbradford/k6lcs/Home.html for all the tips and 
> inspiration to give satellites a try. 
> 
> 
> 
> WooHoo!!!!!! 
> 
> 
> 73, 
> Steve 
> KJ4FEL 
> 
> 
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