I worked a number of stations here in Melbourne, Florida during that pass. AO-51 was coming quite good and I didn't even have my 70cm preamp on during the entire pass while working the stations with omni antennas that are not the same. The 70cm downlink was copied using a 2 meter $2.50 homebrew groundplane for the 70cm downlink.
Reid, W4UPD
On 1/4/2011 5:59 PM, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Thanks to our many friends for their posts about AO-51 activity! It is very helpful. I think our international colleagues are winning by a landslide...
I must admit a bit of disappointment though that many passes over the East coast of the US go without a report...*please* consider posting that AO-51 was active. Just one report is helpful and confirms that the bird remains active.
Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
Thanks,
Mark N8MH
At 03:50 PM 12/30/2010 -0500, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hell All,
The command team could really use your help. If you work AO-51 (or hear it) and there isn't a recent entry, please make a report entry here http://oscar.dcarr.org/ so we know all is well.
Things are touch-and-go now that we are experiencing eclipses, and reports on the OSCAR Status Page that the bird is up and functional are extremely helpful.
We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
Thanks for your help!
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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