My first ever CW QSO with another Ham. Used my FT-817nd at 5 watts!

First CW QSO

This is a live recording of the astronaut responses to questions from students at Santa Barbara Public Library. Unfortunately, you can't here the uplink side with the students themselves asking the questions. This was captured using my Arrow II 3-element Yagi antenna with an RTL-SDR attached to my phone. It was only a 17-degree pass, but still surprisingly clear at the peak.

ISS Contact with students at Santa Barbara Public Library

SO-50 contact with W7YED using just my FT-3D with a whip antenna. This was about a minute of solid contact during the peak of the satellite pass.

W7YED

SO-50 Satellite Contact

AO-92 contact with W7YED using just my FT-3D with a whip antenna. This was about a minute of solid contact during the peak of the satellite pass. N6RSX is also heard, but didn't quite complete the QSO.

W7YED and N6RSX

AO-92 satellite contact with W7YED

Solid contact with NA6US from my 5W Yaesu FT-3D using a $15 whip antenna at 30+ degrees through AO-91 at over 1000 km one-way. This is probably the easiest FM #AMSAT satellite.

NA6US

AO-91 satellite contact with NA6US

A busy pass of the AMSAT satellite AO-91 with multiple contacts from K7IW. This was on 2020-03-06 at 19:41 zulu time.

AO-91

This was a school contact between Andrew Morgan (KI5AAA) and students at Space Camp Turkey. I captured it from Portland, OR, but it was via a ground station run by W5RRR in Houston, TX so I could only hear about the first 4.5 answers, but still quiet good quality. This was captured with a $25 RTL-SDR dongle using SDRTouch on Android with a 5-element Elk Antenna.

ARISS School Contacts

Space Camp Turkey

A school contact with students at Space Camp Turkey as picked up with my FT-3DR with a whip antenna laying on it's side.

ARISS

Space Camp Turkey (HT)

First contact on a Linear Transponder satellite using SSB. I was heard by N6RSX after much struggle and a complete lack of CAT control to handle the Doppler shift. It was all manual tuning as should be very obvious from the recording. I was using my Elk Antenna with my FT-818nd on 2.5W battery power.

Loren M. Lang

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