Greetings,
It looks like contacts from Hawaii are really possible via AO-51. On Sunday I made two contacts to northern California and today made a contact with AA5PK in San Angelo, Texas. We were both at around 1.5 degrees and almost 3600 miles apart. So I'm very happy with my modest IC-W32A & Arrow setup.
I'm planning on operating on four passes over Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday as follows: Tuesday 9/14: AO-51 4:12 - 4:20 PM HST, 7:12 - 7:20 PM PDT, 0212 - 0220 9/15 UTC
Wednesday 9/15 HO-68 9:14 - 9:25 AM HST, 12:14 - 12:25 PM PDT, 1914 - 1925 UTC Note: HO-68 shuts OFF at 1925 UTC AO-51 3:31 - 3:39 PM HST, 6:31 - 6:39 PM PDT, 0131 - 0139 9/16 UTC
Thursday 9/16 HO-68 8:58 - 9:05 AM HST, 11:58 - 12:05 PM PDT, 1858 - 1905 UTC Note: HO-68 shuts OFF at 1905 UTC
Hope to make some more contacts here in BL11 land (Diamond Head - Waikiki).
73's, Tom - KA6SIP