[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 coming out of eclipse over Hawaii

[David Palmer KB5WIA]

AO-51 was in great shape as it passed south above the Pacific Ocean
this morning (6/3/2011 1410z).  No one else was on, but I had a nice
S9+ full quieting downlink on my uplink for the entire pass.

The birds footprint was still in daylight when it went LOS, so even
though it was 1000mi west of the sun line when it dipped below my
horizon, it was still in sunlight at that point.

73 de Dave KB5WIA

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's still on at 0912utc too!  Wow...this is neat.
>
> Robert, could you tell if the trasmitter on was ON during eclipse, or did it come on when it entered sunlight?
>
> Mark N8MH
>
> At 04:15 PM 6/2/2011 -1000, Robert Smith wrote:
>>Aloha
>>
>>Unless  someone has set up a strange repeater there is absolutely
>>no doubt AO51 was alive and well as she came out of eclipse moments ago.
>>I was able to hear myself perfectly on the downlink (145.880 up and
>>435.150 down). Unfortunately, the footprint from here only touched the
>>west coast. Had an Alaska station been on, I am sure there would have
>>been a QSO. The signal was strong the entire pass.
>>(Could I be missing something?).
>>
>>robert, NH7WN
>>Honolulu, HI
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