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Subj: Celebrating the ITU's 140th birthday
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Celebrating the ITU's 140th birthday
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Australian special event station AX3ITU on World Telecommunications Day 17
May was an overwhelming success in spite of the poor ionospheric conditions
experienced.
The 24 hour operation by a team of Amateur Radio Victoria members resulted
in 600 contacts including 30 countries.
More than half of the contacts were made on CW. Peter Forbes VK3QI suffered
a radar type signal interference on 30-metres however was peaking QSO's at
a rate of up to 60 an hour. Dale Whatley VK3YR and Linsday Lawless VK3ANJ
added to the CW tally.
In what could be "firsts" for a special event station of this type, AX3ITU
used Amateur Television and a satellite.
ATV veteran Peter Cossins VK3BFG displayed a QSL-card on the Melbourne ATV
repeater VK3RTV inviting reception reports via the ATV 2-metre liaison
channel.
A total of 12 stations through the Melbourne area made contact during the
two-hour special event telecast.
Noel Ferguson VK3FI at Mildura put AX3ITU on air through Amsat-India’s
brand new Hamsat VO-52. Despite the quirks of the low earth orbiting
satellite he had plenty of QSOs.
Amsat-India gave Amateur Radio Victoria its blessing and good wishes for
the special station station. An audio file of an AX3ITU contact through
VO-52 is being sent to Amsat-India.
A commemorative AX3ITU QSL card for the International Telecommunications
Union's 140th anniversary will be issued.
- Amateur Radio Victoria.
www.amateurradio.com.au
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