With the power on AO-51 set to about 2 watts, it is easy to make contacts. I am not sure if the Amsat team will make this power setting normal. The power has not been set that high in a long time.

73

Angelo

----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Valdez G. " rafavaldez@hotmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 Contact

I used a very similar arrange this week and had perfect and clear contacts...you are right it is easy!!

73

XE2RV

-----Original Message----- From: Ng Peter Peter.Ng@bccdc.ca Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:51:52 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 Contact

I actually "worked" AO-51 this afternoon during the 17:24 PDT pass (CN 89) while driving home using my Yaesu VX-6R on 5 watts with a dual band mag mount. Is that even possible? I heard contacts as far as DM, but only someone from CN copied me. Even so, I thought it was quite amazing. I thought it wasn't as easy as that...I'm still new at this!

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