First of all: thanks to everyone who replied, on-list or off, for all the
helpful comments, kind welcomes, and offers for skeds. What a great group!
Early yesterday evening I listened for a pass of AO-51 and then another one
of the FM birds, forget which. (I had only planned on the first, but th
I've not had any problems bringing the bird up during the late passes such
as the one in question. Between 2200 and 0600 eastern, SO-50 is usually dead
and I find myself talking to myself H-I.
If you'd like to make another attempt I'd be willing to work a schedule with
you to test your gear and ab
That's kind of late, though if there's any one out there it nice to have a
bit of a chat. Did you transmit the with the 74.4 PL to turn the bird on? At
that hour, it may not be on.
I try to work late passes on SO-50 when I can. The pass you tried to work
was too far east to work from Phoenix, DM3
