[amsat-bb] Happy 20th Birthday to FO-29!

[Jim Jerzycke]

Happy birthday to my favorite bird!


73, Jim  KQ6EA


On 08/17/2016 03:02 AM, daleh wrote:
> Tnx Paul, I to enjoy Fo29 when I can..
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> Dale, KL7XJ
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> On 8/16/2016 6:39 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
>> Today (UTC) is the 20th anniversary of the launch of FO-29. 
>> Congratulations
>> to the Japan Amateur Radio League for the success and long life of this
>> satellite. To commemorate FO-29's birthday, I have posted a short 
>> article
>> about FO-29 on the AMSAT-NA website.
>>
>> http://www.amsat.org/?p=5417
>>
>> On a personal note, FO-29 has provided me with many, many hundreds of 
>> hours
>> of enjoyment since I made my first QSO via it's linear transponder 
>> nearly
>> four years ago. I have made 1,601 QSOs (34% of my total) with 400 
>> different
>> stations in 511 grids, 41 grid fields, 48 states (Hawaii is out of 
>> range,
>> but I'd love to work Delaware on it some time!), 7 Canadian call 
>> areas, 46
>> DXCCs, 14 CQ zones, and 4 continents - all using two Yaesu FT-817s, 
>> manual
>> Doppler tuning, and an Arrow antenna from here in Washington, DC. The 
>> large
>> majority of QSOs were made using 5 watts (as I only became "QRO" with 
>> a 30
>> watt amplifier last November). I always look forward to saying hello 
>> to my
>> European satellite friends every couple of months when the apogee is 
>> over
>> the Atlantic and trying to stretch the footprint to work new countries.
>> Here's to hopefully many more years of service to the amateur satellite
>> community!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
>> Secretary
>> Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)
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