RE: [amsat-bb] Why do satellites?

["Andrew Rich" <vk4tec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got one for you

we had a crappy old HT
we had some fence wire and a paint tin lid
we grabbed an old broom handle
we fashioned up a helix antenna
we bolted it to an old steel frame
we sent signals and heard them back thru the sat



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Andrew Rich
Amateur radio callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec@tech-software.net <mailto:vk4tec@tech-software.net>
web: http://www.tech-software.net
Brisbane AUSTRALIA



-----Original Message-----
From: Freeman Pascal [mailto:pascal@pascal.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:38 AM
To: amsat bb
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Why do satellites?


All good replies, keep them coming.  If anyone has any stories about
satellites that are short tells I would be interesting.

My favorite is when I was on my handheld, at my home QTH outside of
Albuquerque, monitoring on the New Mexico Megalink (state wide,
interlinked) repeater system and to my utter surprise heard Leo's
(W7JPI) familiar voice coming at me.  He had dropped his satellite
array down to the horizon and was hitting the Silver City repeater in
NM from his home QTH in Arizona, about 370 mile ground path - dang!
You could imagine my surprise when I heard his voice, and his when he
heard me come back on something other than through a satellite.

-Freeman, N5FPP


"If you are going through hell, keep going."
     -- Sir Winston Churchill


On Apr 24, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Freeman Pascal wrote:

> All good replies, keep them coming.  If anyone has any stories
> about satellites that are short tells I would be interesting.
>
> My favorite is when I was on my handheld, at my home QTH outside of
> Albuquerque, monitoring on the New Mexico Megalink (state wide,
> interlinked) repeater system and to my utter surprise heard Leo's
> (W7JPI) familiar voice coming at me.  He had dropped his satellite
> array down to the horizon and was hitting the Silver City repeater
> in NM from his home QTH in Arizona, about 370 mile ground path -
> dang!  You could imagine my surprise when I heard his voice, and
> his when he heard me come back on something other than through a
> satellite.
>
> -Freeman, N5FPP

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