Hi,

Well today AT 1900 something UTC, AO-27 made a pass. (I don't know if sending a attachment of the recording will work, or if it's allowed) I heard the bird, for the first time. I did not try a contact as the goal was to hear and track the bird, get a idea of how to tune for Doppler effect. I found it's a lot easier to just wave the antenna around and not use a tri pod. The antenna I used was my home brew yagi's (based on the AM SAT easy yagi's) with one tweak. I mounted them 90 degrees to each other one antenna and two radio's (for full duplex) the receive radio was the new UV5R. I will use my HTX 202 to transmit. You have to un .rar the recording. That's the only way I knew to make it small. I will try again tomorrow and maybe try to make a contact. It's a lot to do at once listen for as well as track the bird with your antenna & record the pass (my phone only records like a minute at a time). I will have to get something better. It's on now!

73

KC9PXZ (EN43qt)

Jimmy