On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 09:37:05PM -0400, Hector, CO6CBF wrote: > It was an exciting afternoon on the birds! First, I worked Patrick, WD9EWK > on SO-50 in a new grid for me (FN56). Patrick, thanks very much for the > great QSO and new grid! > > Then, I had my first contact on satellites with France. Michael, F6GLJ in > IN94qs and I completed a great QSO on FO-29. We had a maxim elevation of 0.5 > degree at our ends. I believe it is the first contact between Cuba and > France on FO-29! It is a 7508 Km contact! > > Our first attempt was on July 18 but Michael was not able to get a solid > copy of my signal. Fortunately, FO-29 offered us another opportunity, we > made a schedule again and I decided to use the ELK antenna instead of the > ARROW which I used in the first attempt.
Congratulations on your contacts! That's awesome work! 73, Eric W4OTN _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
