Re: [amsat-bb] W4J JOTA results

[Emily Clarke <emily@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow - Thanks Lee - good points for me to follow.

I was at Pacificon, and invited the Jpta Scouts to use the sat 
station - first time we had space to set up.

Several came over, but only one took the microphone. We used my 
callsign as the contact station, and Scout Matthew made contacts on 
AO-51. He and his parents were so excited they came back and Matthew 
again took the microphone on VO-52.

Stations contacted were W0LMD, VE6AB (thanks Jerry), KD5MSS (Mark in 
Las Vegas) and others.  Matthew had a small problem so he might have 
identified as W OH EEC instead of W Zero EEC.

This was the first time we were in a position to have JOTA on Sats, 
so we learned that a) kids are shy and b) they aren't as spontaneous 
as we are. Matt was very cool and his parents were very excited.

We do it, and we learn from it.  Next year - handouts and maps to the 
station :-)

73,

Emily



At 06:12 PM 10/17/2005, Lee McLamb wrote:
>Troop 393 in Merritt Island, FL had an excellent time working the
>satellites Saturday morning as W4J.
>
>We made 11 contacts on SO-50 and AO-51 including NX2X, K2BSA, N2AMC,
>VO1ONE, NX2X, WA4HCT, NX2Q, KE4AZN, N5AFV, VE3BSB and N4J(?).  Two
>Scouts also got to talk with Commander William McArthur who was calling
>CQ JOTA from NA1SS which resulted resulted in a lot of whooping and
>jumping around after each ISS pass.  I guess we were the last station in
>the footprint because after a quick contact he called CQ JOTA then he
>called back to the Scouts and chatted with them to LOS.
>
>Helping the Scouts with the satellites were Don AG4FC, George KF4XB and
>me KU4OS.  We kept things very simple using HTs, Arrow or home brew
>antennas and a 2m rig in the car with a 1/4 wave whip.
>
>73,
>Lee-KU4OS
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