wheatley@inuxc.UUCP (12/05/83)
W5LFL was heard with a very strong signal at 10:08:15EST and 10:10 EST in central indiana Sunday Morning. He seemed to not follow the format prescribed where he was to transmit for an entire minute. He transmitted quickly, and then allowed more than the allotted minute for ground stations to contact him. He gave a brief account of the view from the spacecraft, as it crossed from Houston up over the Great lakes, and acknowledged only one call, but he was not sure of the exact call, indicating that he would retrieve it from the tape when he was on the ground. At any rate, the best chance of working W5LFL seems to be a matter of getting on his tape, in other words, don't worry if you dont hear him acknowledge your call! On other matters, anyone volunteer to decipher the tape he is making!! What a job that will be, especially if a intense effort is made to pull all the calls out of the tape, rather than just the obvious ones. I guess they will be listed in some form or another in the future. W5LFL was reported , by W5RRR and others, to have worked JY1, King Hussein of Jordan, on the same orbit referred to above, as the shuttle descended over Europe and Asia. In fact, local repeater chatter indicated that perhaps a qso occurred, not just a one way "I heard JY1" by W5LFL. Steve Wheatley, inuxc!wheatley