Hello Tom Doyle! We worked Oscar 8, mode J on 23mar82 at 1520Z...I've got #219 entered in the remarks column, whatever that means, maybe Mode J club??? With a check in the qsl column so I assume we exchanged cards..
So you can count San Diego county if that still works??? Counties to me mean hunting boundaries.. Lots of familiar calls....any other OT's still around?? I have done the same thing with my logbooks over the past 31 years, with quite a few big gaps....FM seems to make sort of a buzzing in my fillings??? >If you have not been on satellites for a really long time (> 20 years) you >may find this interesting. It explains why us old geezers say the old days >were amazing. If you were on decades ago it may bring back memories. > >I have been getting back into hamming after a long hiatus and have been >listening to the satellites for a month or two while working on a controller >project and decided it was time to try and make a contact. Thanks to K4MOA >and W5MPC, today I made my first sat contacts in a very long time. A little >later I almost made a cw contact (used my trusty old J-38 key) on another >sat but lost him. I told you this was interesting and really exciting. > >Thought I had better log the contacts and started looking for a logbook. >Found a old slightly yellowed logbook with Oscar-10 written on the cover. As >a group we hams (including me) are pretty cheap so I had saved this logbook >because there were empty pages still left in it. I entered my new contacts >on a fresh page (decided to splurge) and then looked back and found it was >my first sat contact since 1983. I know you are still waiting for the >exciting part. > >Here is a typical page from the log. I am in Wisconsin and believe it or not >I had pile ups of europeans wanting to work Wisconsin of all things. It was >a real thrill. Times change and I now have two grid squares - not sure what >they are for but I have two and feel the need for more. There are 29 empty >pages left in the logbook so I am good to go. Hope to work you. > >http://www.tomdoyle.org/satellite/Amsat-1983.jpg > >73 tom... W9KE >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. 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 73, Dave, WB6LLO dguim...@san.rr.com Disagree: I learn.... Pulling for P3E... _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. 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
