Saturday, August 17, 2019

First contact into the Philippines via Satellite

Yesterday I received an email from Taz, DU9JJY. He was looking for a contact into VK8 via the AO-91 Satellite.  We set up a Sched for 1pm today and here it is: -




OK, so the 59 report may have been a bit optimistic, but his signal did pick up! This was the first outing for my recently acquired and now refurbished FT-817nd.  The antenna was an Arrow.  A reasonable effort of about 2300km from the balcony!


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