[amsat-bb] Video: Talking through a satellite from 15 feet apart

[k6vug at sbcglobal.net]

 That's the way to do it... ! 

73!Umeshk6vug

    On Sunday, March 31, 2019, 6:56:29 PM PDT, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 https://youtu.be/HbNKiGO1Bfo

Andrew Knafel, KN8FEL saw my videos and through our correspondence I
helped him learn how to operate satellites.

He and his family live in Ohio but regularly vacation at Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. He has a long time friend who lives near Raleigh,
which is on the way to Myrtle Beach, who he usually stops to see.

Since he was in town we met up for an evening to play radio. We worked
four passes on four different satellites.

The highlight was making contact through a satellite while standing
mere feet away from each other. We actually did this twice on two
different satellites. :-)

Follow Andrew's sat activities on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/kn8fel

Andrew's equipment:

Arrow II antenna
Yaesu FT-818 for transmit on linear/SSB sats
Wouxon HT for transmit on FM repeater sats
Kenwood TH-D74 for receive

My equipment:

Alaskan Arrow with only one of three sections, except SO-50 pass where
I used two of three sections.
Icom IC-910H for linear sat passes
Kenwood TM-V71 for SO-50.

We worked these four passes:

2019-03-30 - 22:51 UTC - XW-2D
2019-03-30 - 23:10 UTC - XW-2C
2019-03-30 - 23:24 UTC - CAS-4A
2019-03-31 - 00:02 UTC - SO-50

73, John Brier KG4AKV
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