[amsat-bb] Thank you - VUCC

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Hi!

If we're talking first satellite contacts... I worked two
DX stations for my first satellite contacts in March 2000,
using the SO-35 "SunSat" FM satellite. The FO0AAA Clipperton
DXpedition had mentioned they might work satellites, but
they didn't show up. Instead, I worked XE1MEX and XE2YVW
(now better known as XE2AT) using a pair of HTs and long
whip antennas for my first satellite QSOs. I got QSL cards
from both of them, and the QSO with XE1MEX is also confirmed
in Logbook of the World. :-)

Other than one UO-14 contact in June 2003 (another DX QSO,
with XE2BSS in Baja California), I didn't get the satellite
"bug" until late 2005. I tried AO-51, and worked K7RQN who
was about 10 miles away from me that December morning - my
first non-DX satellite QSO. Still having fun with satellites...

73!





Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK



On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:46 PM Mike Seguin <n1jez at burlingtontelecom.net>
wrote:

> I got in to satellite with AO-10 and AO-13. My first 4 contacts were 75%
> DX...
>
> 06-29-95  11:36  PJ2MI       59   59   FK52NC  SSB    AO-13   B
> 07-02-95  16:13  K3EVM       59   59   FM19NL  SSB    AO-13   B
> 07-04-95  11:55  PA3GWF      59   59   JO23TE  SSB    AO-10   B
> 07-04-95  12:10  ON4CZ       59   59   JO10VL  SSB    AO-10   B
>
> Mike
>
>