[amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact

[Paul Stoetzer]

SatPC32 shows that at 17:32 UTC, KG5CCI had 0.2 degrees of elevation and
F4CQA also had 0.2 degrees of elevation.

KG5CCI had a natural 1,056 foot tower at his disposal and F4CQA has quite
an antenna array at his home station. Great job to both! Doubly impressive
that this was a random contact.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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