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Today's Topics:
1. 1.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz Birds (Bob Bennett)
2. Re: 1.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz Birds (Daniel Cussen)
3. EM96 (James Lea - WX4TV)
4. ARISS school contact (skristof@xxxxxxx.xxxx
5. Re: ARISS school contact (AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
6. Re: ARISS school contact (gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
7. Re: ARISS school contact (AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
8. Re: ARISS school contact (skristof@xxxxxxx.xxxx
9. REPORT RX NO-84 (LW8EXS)
10. Re: ARISS school contact (John Brier)
11. Re: ARISS school contact (AJ9N@xxx.xxxx
12. Re: ARISS school contact (John Brier)
13. Extreme DX FO29 Contact (Dave Swanson)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:49:11 -0400
From: Bob Bennett <bobsmacbox@xxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] 1.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz Birds
Message-ID: <55DE96C7.4010807@xxxxx.xxx>
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I am putting my new M2 LEO antenna up, and since I have loop yagis for
1.2 and 2.4 GHz, I wanted to know if there are any currently active
satellites using these frequencies. I checked heavens-above and found a
few but wanted to ask the experienced birdwatchers on this list.
Thanx
nz2z
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:49:46 +0100
From: Daniel Cussen <dan@xxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] 1.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz Birds
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On 2395Mhz there is a strong, wide downlink only DVB-S PSK carrier
from the HAMTV downlink from the ISS. I am not sure you can pick it up
with your set up. On a spectrum analyser you see a wide hump around
two megahertz wide. It is very strong when directly overhead. It is
true circularly polarised, but you MUST use antennas with RHCP not
LHCP, or you will block the signal.
At the moment it is broadcasting on every pass, with blank video, but
the DVB-S carrier is sending normal data.
It is expected to turn off on Monday 31 August 2015, between 15:00
and 15:10 UTC. until mid September as it's power supply is being
borrowed for another experiment. This should not affect other HAM
equipment on board the ISS such a packet.
http://www.ariss-eu.org/columbus.htm
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:47:57 -0400
From: James Lea - WX4TV <james@xxxxx.xxx>
To: Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] EM96
Message-ID: <102B03CD-F3B2-470F-A13E-C04CA0C9E628@xxxxx.xxx>
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I will be on the SO-50 pass at 1557Z from EM96.
James Lea
Sent from my iPhone
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:11:16 -0400
From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Message-ID: <4816368f37deb5894b743ea3c9706213@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain
Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
Steve AI9IN
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:14:39 -0400
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Message-ID: <15b28c.13a7c7ba.4310916f@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Thanks Steve,
It was an outstanding contact and went well.
73,
Charlie
In a message dated 8/27/2015 9:11:26 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx writes:
Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
Steve AI9IN
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:16:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
To: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
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I, too, received excellent audio from the ISS in EM30.
George
WA5KBH
-----Original Message-----
From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:11
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
Steve AI9IN
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:18:14 -0400
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Message-ID: <15b448.4922b1f6.43109246@xxx.xxx>
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Thanks George,
It was an outstanding contact and was also webstreamed.
Thanks for the report.
73,
Charlie AJ9N
ARISS mentor for Maconaquah Schools
In a message dated 8/27/2015 9:16:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx writes:
I, too, received excellent audio from the ISS in EM30.
George
WA5KBH
-----Original Message-----
From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:11
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
Steve AI9IN
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:42:16 -0400
From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Message-ID: <11983f0d99eab95bb3b7c70710c0defe@xxxxxxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain
Webstreaming is a great idea!
But, I believe that I am in the running for "Nerd of the Month" at my
school for standing in the parking lot with my HT and my Arrow antenna,
and with a voice recorder in my shirt pocket and the microphone clipped
to my tie.
Steve AI9IN
On 2015-08-27 12:18, AJ9N@xxx.xxx wrote:
> Thanks George,
>
> It was an outstanding contact and was also webstreamed.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> 73,
> Charlie AJ9N
> ARISS mentor for Maconaquah Schools
>
> In a message dated 8/27/2015 9:16:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx writes:
>
>> I, too, received excellent audio from the ISS in EM30.
>> George
>> WA5KBH
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:11
>> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
>>
>> Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
>> side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
>>
>> I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
>> corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
>>
>> Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
>> and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
>>
>> I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
>>
>> Steve AI9IN
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:04:18 -0300
From: "LW8EXS" <lw8exs@xxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] REPORT RX NO-84
Message-ID: <17C60F4A4EE4479D9BFB34BFF0B44B16@xxx>
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NOTHING HEARD IN 435.350RX 145.825 FM - 19:51 UTC
1:Fm PSAT-1 To APOFF Via ARISS <UI R Pid=F0 Len=34> [16:51:48R]
T#676,844,076,500,859,846,00011100
1:Fm PSAT-1 To APOFF Via ARISS <UI R Pid=F0 Len=50> [16:52:45R]
!17 . N\114 . WS140/999/W3ADO s#016745,0z290
1:Fm PSAT-1 To APOFF Via ARISS <UI R Pid=F0 Len=52> [16:52:46R]
s#016745,0z290,haMiHMFJLJbMgeMlHLAJMDbNlgMlHKbJN0cN
1:Fm PSAT-1 To APOFF Via ARISS <UI R Pid=F0 Len=50> [16:54:19R]
!14 . N\111 . WS140/999/W3ADO s#016746,0z290
73s LW8EXS
Mercedes ( Buenos Aires ) Argentina
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:33:23 -0400
From: John Brier <johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
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I heard the majority of it here in Raleigh, NC (FM05). People should
consider listening even for ISS contacts in different states/areas. I
received the entire contact with New York here in Raleigh once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGFEanljOG8
Last Saturday I even heard the tail end of a contact that was
happening in Arizona. Granted I was on the Blue Ridge parkway in the
Appalachian mountains, but still. Don't have that one on YouTube yet.
Most impressively I heard the very beginning of a contact via a
telebridge in Italy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsaIN1R6LfY
The only reason I heard that though is because Gennady Padalka started
calling Italy 6 or 7 minutes early. I actually forgot about the
contact and was in the middle of calling them for a random contact. I
returned the call only because that's what I thought he was calling
for, but you shouldn't call them when they are doing scheduled school
contacts so as not to confuse them or interfere.
John, KG4AKV
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:42 PM, <skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>
> Webstreaming is a great idea!
>
> But, I believe that I am in the running for "Nerd of the Month" at my
> school for standing in the parking lot with my HT and my Arrow antenna,
> and with a voice recorder in my shirt pocket and the microphone clipped
> to my tie.
>
> Steve AI9IN
>
> On 2015-08-27 12:18, AJ9N@xxx.xxx wrote:
>
>> Thanks George,
>>
>> It was an outstanding contact and was also webstreamed.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> 73,
>> Charlie AJ9N
>> ARISS mentor for Maconaquah Schools
>>
>> In a message dated 8/27/2015 9:16:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx writes:
>>
>>> I, too, received excellent audio from the ISS in EM30.
>>> George
>>> WA5KBH
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:11
>>> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
>>>
>>> Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
>>> side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
>>>
>>> I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
>>> corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
>>>
>>> Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
>>> and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
>>>
>>> I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
>>>
>>> Steve AI9IN
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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> _______________________________________________
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:47:14 -0400
From: AJ9N@xxx.xxx
To: johnbrier@xxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
Message-ID: <162be6.496efed4.4310d152@xxx.xxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Thanks John for the report.
And thanks for reminding everyone to not attempt to make a contact before a
scheduled ARISS contact. The ISS crew will only be listening for one
specific callsign; that of the school or telebridge station. Once a contact
is over, then it is fair game but just know they are probably back to work
as soon as the contact is over.
73,
Charlie AJ9N
One of the ARISS mentors
In a message dated 8/27/2015 1:33:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx writes:
I heard the majority of it here in Raleigh, NC (FM05). People should
consider listening even for ISS contacts in different states/areas. I
received the entire contact with New York here in Raleigh once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGFEanljOG8
Last Saturday I even heard the tail end of a contact that was
happening in Arizona. Granted I was on the Blue Ridge parkway in the
Appalachian mountains, but still. Don't have that one on YouTube yet.
Most impressively I heard the very beginning of a contact via a
telebridge in Italy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsaIN1R6LfY
The only reason I heard that though is because Gennady Padalka started
calling Italy 6 or 7 minutes early. I actually forgot about the
contact and was in the middle of calling them for a random contact. I
returned the call only because that's what I thought he was calling
for, but you shouldn't call them when they are doing scheduled school
contacts so as not to confuse them or interfere.
John, KG4AKV
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:42 PM, <skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>
> Webstreaming is a great idea!
>
> But, I believe that I am in the running for "Nerd of the Month" at my
> school for standing in the parking lot with my HT and my Arrow antenna,
> and with a voice recorder in my shirt pocket and the microphone clipped
> to my tie.
>
> Steve AI9IN
>
> On 2015-08-27 12:18, AJ9N@xxx.xxx wrote:
>
>> Thanks George,
>>
>> It was an outstanding contact and was also webstreamed.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> 73,
>> Charlie AJ9N
>> ARISS mentor for Maconaquah Schools
>>
>> In a message dated 8/27/2015 9:16:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx writes:
>>
>>> I, too, received excellent audio from the ISS in EM30.
>>> George
>>> WA5KBH
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:11
>>> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
>>>
>>> Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
>>> side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
>>>
>>> I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN
(southeast
>>> corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
>>>
>>> Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
>>> and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
>>>
>>> I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
>>>
>>> Steve AI9IN
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
>>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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of AMSAT-NA.
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program!
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>
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:53:08 -0400
From: John Brier <johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
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While we're talking about ARISS contacts, I have a question.
When the cosmonauts do these contacts, do they use the more powerful
Kenwood radio in the Zvezda Russian service module or do they use the
same setup that most other astronauts use in the Columbus Module?
Because I received a 7 degree pass [1] full scale on the S-meter with
Gennady Padalka and an Oklahoma group, where the ISS was even further
west from them, I believe over Colorado. Whereas today's 23 degree
pass for me I was only getting S-5 or S-7 at the most.
John, KG4AKV
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-XIz5OUXn4
Note: do not call the ISS before, during, or after a scheduled
contact. You could confuse them or interfere. That was a mistake I
made.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:33 PM, John Brier <johnbrier@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> I heard the majority of it here in Raleigh, NC (FM05). People should
> consider listening even for ISS contacts in different states/areas. I
> received the entire contact with New York here in Raleigh once:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGFEanljOG8
>
> Last Saturday I even heard the tail end of a contact that was
> happening in Arizona. Granted I was on the Blue Ridge parkway in the
> Appalachian mountains, but still. Don't have that one on YouTube yet.
>
> Most impressively I heard the very beginning of a contact via a
> telebridge in Italy:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsaIN1R6LfY
>
> The only reason I heard that though is because Gennady Padalka started
> calling Italy 6 or 7 minutes early. I actually forgot about the
> contact and was in the middle of calling them for a random contact. I
> returned the call only because that's what I thought he was calling
> for, but you shouldn't call them when they are doing scheduled school
> contacts so as not to confuse them or interfere.
>
> John, KG4AKV
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:42 PM, <skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Webstreaming is a great idea!
>>
>> But, I believe that I am in the running for "Nerd of the Month" at my
>> school for standing in the parking lot with my HT and my Arrow antenna,
>> and with a voice recorder in my shirt pocket and the microphone clipped
>> to my tie.
>>
>> Steve AI9IN
>>
>> On 2015-08-27 12:18, AJ9N@xxx.xxx wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks George,
>>>
>>> It was an outstanding contact and was also webstreamed.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the report.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Charlie AJ9N
>>> ARISS mentor for Maconaquah Schools
>>>
>>> In a message dated 8/27/2015 9:16:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
gkcarr@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx writes:
>>>
>>>> I, too, received excellent audio from the ISS in EM30.
>>>> George
>>>> WA5KBH
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: skristof@xxxxxxx.xxx
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:11
>>>> To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
>>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS school contact
>>>>
>>>> Had excellent reception (RS 59) horizon to horizon of the astronaut's
>>>> side of the QSO between the ISS and Bunker Hill School, Indiana.
>>>>
>>>> I am located at Ivy Tech Community College in Batesville, IN (southeast
>>>> corner of state, Grid EM79jg).
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much to the astronauts, the folks in Bunker Hill School,
>>>> and everyone who supports ARISS for making this possible.
>>>>
>>>> I did record it, but haven't checked my recording yet.
>>>>
>>>> Steve AI9IN
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@xxxxx.xxx. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
>>>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:59:59 -0500
From: Dave Swanson <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxxx f4cqa@xxxx.xx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Extreme DX FO29 Contact
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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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