[amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact

[Skyler F]

That is awesome and I am mentioning it on the colorado amateur satellite
net tonight.

What was the degree that the contact was made at?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd at comcast.net> wrote:

> Nice Job Dave and Christophe- I am trying the same from CN87wk. Not easy
> but worth the effort. "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible
> takes a little longer"
> 73 Bob W7LRD
> Seattle, Wa.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Dave Swanson" <dave at druidnetworks.com>
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org, f4cqa at free.fr
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:59:59 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
>
> Satellite friends and colleagues,
>
> I'm happy to announce that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, A QSO was
> made between myself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on Satellite FO-29. This was not
> a scheduled contact, I simply answered Christophe's CQ call. I knew it
> was a good contact at the time, but as I was portable up on Arkansas'
> Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources available to calculate
> distances. After returning to my office I began to log the contacts I
> had made, and noticed the "general" distance between EM34 and JN17 was
> in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this realization, my
> email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came to the same
> conclusion.
>
> After some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, we have
> settled on an official distance of 7599.959km between my grid of
> EM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT, using the
> http://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website for calculations.
>
> To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on Amsat-UK's
> website ( at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/
> ) this breaks the previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF
> and G4DOL, and the 7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.
>
> I had my camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw
> clip of the contact here:
>
> https://youtu.be/orY0Re0IY30
>
> If anyone has any questions about the contact, I'll be happy to answer
> them. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the
> contact, and here's to many more.
>
> 73!
>
> -Dave, KG5CCI
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