As it turned out, I jinxed myself with that post. Stood at the ready during the pass and heard nada.... Thought maybe the transponder was turned off....At about the midway point I noticed one of the micro-coax connection points to my (uhf) yagi was broken.

Will have to fix that.... ah well.

"If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all" ~ Albert King

73, Chris KQ2RP