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Congratulations (was Re: 10yo YL AO-51 contact)
Congratulations Aruni! Great Job!
73,
Emily
At 12:40 PM 8/1/2004 -0500, Aruni wrote:
>Hi to the BB...
>
>My name is Aruni Perera VE4WMK and I am10 years old,
>
>On my third attempt to make a contact on AO-51. Orbit number was 433. On
>July 30 at 17:39 UTC, I pointed my Arrow antenna towards the AOS azimuth of
>10 degrees from my location. The bird was not more than 20 degrees over my
>horizon. I heard Egon VE6EGN was calling two stations. I couldn't hear
>anybody calling him back. After his second call I decided to give him a
>call. He came back to me with strong fully quieting signal to my Icom IC
>W32A hand held. I was so excited. We completed our QSO without any
>interference. After the QSO he even had few words with me since I couldn't
>complete my AO-51 QSO with him on the previous night due to QRM.
>
>I am ten year old full licenced YL looking forward to make many more
>contcts on AO-51.
>
>Congratulations Echo team! You did a great job. Good luck with your next
>project.
>
>Aruni Perera VE4WMK
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