[amsat-bb] Re: AO-40 range record ??

David Giles vk5dg at aapt.net.au
Mon Mar 21 23:26:04 PDT 2011


Hello John and everyone else.

According to the logbook that contact was around 2.5 degrees
elevation which is very close to my horizon.  My best distance would
probably be a contact with EI4HT.

Another feature of AO-40 which may or may not be relevant to your
talk Pete, was the variety of uplinks and downlinks.  One of my most 
memorable
contacts was with OE1VKW.  I was using U/S, he was using L/K.  Four 
bands for
one contact.  Mind you, he was doing most of the work for that one.
Maybe not specific to a HEO, but SSB/CW on K-band on a LEO would
be extremely difficult.  Having an almost stationary HEO made it possible.

Happy days indeed.

73 de David VK5DG

On 22/03/11 10:02, John Heath wrote:
> My best DX on AO-40 was VK5DG south Australia from central england.
> 70cms up  2.4GHz down.
>
> Happy days !!
>
> 73 john G7HIA
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-40 range record ??
>
> Hi,
>
> For a small club satellite presentation I will be mentioning the
> benefits of HEO over LEO and the range advantage.
>
> Can anyone tell me the distance record set when AO-40 was alive?
>
> Thanks
>
> 73
>
> 2i0VAX
>
> Pete
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