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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>OSCAR-7 DX record broken again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Independence Day, July 4, saw AC0RA and OM3BD set another world distance record using the amateur radio satellite AMSAT-OSCAR-7, breaking their own record set just 48 hours earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The new distance record was 7903.55km comfortably exceeding the previous record of 7849km.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Bill OM3BD in Grid Square JN88mf reports that Wyatt AC0RA once again woke up early and this time drove 150 miles to EN41ad. They had a 30 second contact at 0949Z to extend the record to 7 903.55km. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Recordings, pictures, and further info at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://qsl.net/nz5n/AO7record.htm">http://qsl.net/nz5n/AO7record.htm</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The article "Guide To OSCAR Operating" that was published in "The Best of OSCAR News" Volume 1 in 1980 notes that the maximum theoretic range of AO-7 without propagation enhancements was expected to be about 7900 km. In some ways it is surprising that it took 37 years after the launch of AO-7 for the extremes of range to be tested to their limits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Previous OSCAR-7 DX record <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.uk.amsat.org/8728">http://www.uk.amsat.org/8728</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10th Anniversary of OSCAR 7′s Return To Life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.uk.amsat.org/8524 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>