Hello (J)AMSATs,
Today was the last day of Tokyo Ham Fair, which was another great day like it
was yesterday. I was at the JAMSAT booth where I showed my small transponder
design to the HAM people, which gave a lot off interest from all kinds of
people. Possibilities for future satellite have been created and people have
been made interrested in doing satellite communication.
I had also the opertunity to meet a lot of people using the VO-52 satellite, on
which is my transponder. It is a great joy to see the satellite activities here
on the other side of the globe (seen from my home in The Netherlands). I
noticed that a lot of CW is used here. Some people are doing city junting,
which means they have their car build like a satellite station (incl. rotor and
elevation) and hop between satellite passes from one city to another, and try
to make QSOs from as many cities as possible. The car stations are real nice
contructions, and of great ham spirit. Very nice to see...
There was also a list with number of contacts made for each satellite pass by
one ham. The highest number was on VO-52 with 42 QSO's for one pass (over
Japan), 36 in CW and 6 in SSB. Its really amazing, and it must have been done
with very high time efficiency, and a very fast CW wrist hihi...
It was a great time at the JAMSAT booth, and we had a nice after party with lot
of JAMSAT members, and with delicious Japanese food. My thanks for the great
hospitality from the JAMSAT people, and thanks for the nice talks we had about
satellites.
73 de JA/PE1RAH
William Leijenaar in Tokyo (till 28 August)
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