[amsat-bb] Re: Helped needed--AO-51 activity reports

[w4upd]

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...
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> 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.
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> Did anybody work AO-51 during the 4:45pm pass today??
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> Thanks,
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> Mark N8MH
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> We do expect the transmitter to go OFF during eclipse, but eclipses are only a couple minutes or less at the moment.
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>> Thanks for your help!
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>> Mark L. Hammond  [N8MH]
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