Well, this was unexpected. During my commute this morning, after being delayed by a schoolbus, I was approaching the train station when my squelch breaks on my radio. Nothing big, but my ears did pick up because it didn’t sound like a regular repeater. A large booming signal, I heard him chatting with someone. I looked down at my radio and saw “435.305″ as the receive frequency. At first I thought it was someone accidently transmitting on the downlink frequency, but then my pre-coffee neurons starting firing and remembered that there was a 7:10AM EST pass of AO-51.
Of course… I jumped at the chance to work some morning satellite, despite my train leaving in under 10 minutes.
I managed to contact one station and heard N1AIA again very weakly into the satellite. The end of the pass was frustrating, as just when I was pulling into my space, a YV6 (Venezuela) station popped in. But I could tell it would have been near impossible to work him, and it would have made me miss the train.
But… I did consider it…
No recording this time, as I would have likely killed myself driving.
Stations Worked:
- N8DDK – FM05 – Knightdale, NC
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