[amsat-bb] Re: EU members - UHF contest tonight?

[Gus 8P6SM]

On 10/09/2012 04:13 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
> Just now on AO-7 I heard a terrestrial station (DL on LSB) working a contest
> of some sort. He was pretty weak here, but thought I copied G4VF? His
> frequency would have been 432.160 or so. Always interesting hearing the
> unintentional sat ops...reminds me of RS-12/13.
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA

I can recall (many years ago) during a perigee pass of AO-13 over SA, I 
could clearly hear SA stations working terrestrial UHF FM, mobile, with 
the satellite on the omni antennas.  Perhaps I should have sent out QSL 
cards with SWL reports, just to encourage those operators to consider 
the possibility of raising their eyes above the horizon.....

-- 
73, de Gus 8P6SM
The Easternmost Isle