[amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."

[Luc Leblanc]

> 

> 
>    AO-40 was an incentive for me, though I never got beyond monitoring 
>    the 2m beacon in the early days after launch and before the incident 
>    with the 400N motor.  I did collect a lot of good telemetry though
> 

> 
>    Unfortunately, LEOs can't solve the problem of vast distances meaning 
>    little chance of variety - all I've ever worked on satellite is VK, 
>    ZL, P29 and 3D2, but we have to make do with what is practical. :-/
> 
>    73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
>    http://vkradio.com
> 
I logged 762 QSO on AO-40 from 2001 to 2003 here is some of them:

VK4UBM
VK3KOS
VK3BVM

ZL2MN
ZL2AWD
ZL1DU

FR7SAT

JA6QTJ
JA3THL
JA1CG
JA5CU
JA1IRH
JA3SGR
JA5DVR/5
JA1COU

I was the last station in the world who get the WAC award on satellite:

SAT#9      May 1984 EN70   W4CKD         Bob        -
SAT     02 Apr 1985 JN47   HB9CRQ        Dan        now HB9Q
SAT     28 May 1985 JO30   DC8TS         Hardy      -
SAT     07 Jun 1985 JO30   DC9ZP         Manfred    -
SAT     27 Jul 1995 IO91   G0MRF         David      -
SAT     17 Dec 1985 EN61   N2BJ          Barry      -
SAT     06 Nov 1990 IO81   GW8TIX        Gerald     -
SAT     13 Dec 1995 FN41   WA1QXR        Ken        -
SAT     07 Feb 1997 FN34   N1JEZ         Mike       -
SAT     12 Mar 1999 JO65   OZ1MY         Ib         -
SAT     18 Dec 1998 JN52   IK0WGF        ?          ex-IW0DAL
SAT     14-Jul-2000 DL81   XE2AT         Al         ex-XE2YVW
SAT     31 Oct 2003 PM96   JN1BPM        Hide       -
SAT     06 Sep 2006 FN36   VE2DWE        Luc        -

Complete list on http://www.qsl.net/ve2pij/vhfwac.html

If DX means something for you you should push for the last HEO actual project from AMSAT-DL but no fresh new from them since a long time 
now?


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