[SADXA] HAM Video

[W7EXG]

I agree Wes, 

Thanks for sharing. 

Bill W7EXG

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Sent: Friday, December 16, 2022 11:51 AM
To: Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [SADXA] HAM Video

Cool story, Wes. Thanks.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 5:13 PM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:

> https://www.montanapbs.org/programs/ham
>
> This was done by Montana PBS.  I know (have worked) some of these 
> guys.  I worked Lance, W7GJ, then WA1JXN, on 2-meter EME in 1982 and 
> have his QSL seen near the end of the video.  He was the first to 
> contact Owen W5LFL, in the space shuttle.  I heard that exchange but 
> when I went to transmit, not having a relay sequencer with the 
> multi-mode transceiver needed for FM, I blew the tower-mounted GaAs 
> FET preamp.  I had to climb the tower and put in a JFET preamp and 
> worked him on the next pass.  Lance's signal report was so-so.
> Mine
> was "You're the loudest signal heard in the spacecraft."
>
> Wes  N7WS
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