It has been about a month now since AO-51 was commanded back to its normal orientation. But many are reporting that they are having more trouble hearing it now than they did before the first re-orientation.
It does seem to me that some stations that usually hear very well are not hearing that well now. This morning's pass (9Feb2010 1045z) of AO-51 seemed to bear that out. AF6RF, KB1RVT, KE3LB, WD0X?, KJ4CBC, K5QXJ, WB2IOL and YF6BFE were on the pass and with a few exceptions, all were not able to hear at some point during the pass. There are also a few noisy uplink transmissions as well.
The recording can be downloaded at: http://www.papays.com/AO-51_09Feb2010_104452za.mp3 (there are no signals in the first minute of the recording)
Is anyone else having trouble hearing AO-51 as well as they heard it before the flip experiment?
73, John K8YSE