[SADXA] There's hope for old guys.

[Wes]

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This is from the ARRL letter of a week ago.

"Venerable AO-7 Satellite Continues to Deliver

The nearly 46-year-old AO-7 amateur satellite made a remarkable contact possible 
on May 4 between Diego Feil, LW2DAF, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (GF05rk), and 
Tom Ambrose, ZS1TA, in Cape Town, South Africa (JF95fx). The contact spanned 
4,329 miles across the South Atlantic, with both stations aiming at only 2 or 3 
degrees above the horizon.

Both stations had been watching orbital predictions for several weeks, and the 
times they could "see" AO-7 at the same time occurred only occasionally. 
Electrical noise, particularly in Cape Town, had hampered earlier efforts, but 
on the morning of May 4, noise levels were low, and a perfect contact was 
possible with a full exchange of call signs and reports."

Supposedly this one died in 1981.  I didn't use this bird much but I was very 
active on Oscar 6. I tried, unsuccessfully, to complete a Bi-Centennial WAS 
using AO-6.  IIRC I lacked only WV.

Wes  N7WS