I ended up getting a break in the weather enough to work AO-27 on its 18:18Z to 18:33Z pass over Maryland on 9\/18\/2012.<\/p>\n
I had a bit of a learning curve switching the frequencies, holding the antenna and recorder and trying to work someone.\u00a0 I heard CO6CBF at EL92 and he called me but I did not get a confirmation from him.\u00a0 I heard W4SE, NL7VX, NX9B and WI9I.<\/p>\n
My first satellite contact was K4KEG EM 55 at close to LOS.\u00a0 Here is the QSO that I recorded:<\/p>\n
K4FEG<\/a><\/p>\n My second QSO was right\u00a0after that with W5PFG who called me and was\u00a0on the grid line of DM94\/EM04.\u00a0 Here is the QSO that I recorded:<\/p>\n W5PFG<\/a><\/p>\n What alot of fun.\u00a0 I know I will get better at it as\u00a0time goes.\u00a0 I think I am going to get a tripod.<\/p>\n 73<\/p>\n Joe<\/p>\n N3FHW<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I ended up getting a break in the weather enough to work AO-27 on its 18:18Z to 18:33Z pass over Maryland on 9\/18\/2012. I had a bit of a learning curve switching the frequencies, holding the antenna and recorder and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n3fhw.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}