AO-51 5/24/09 22:00 Pass KC2UOO W4S (Special event)

Working AO-51 from a hill near my house, that has a tower ... I was sick of getting super short passes in my yard so moved it to a higher location

W4S Came in and was the station everyone wanted to work! W4S is a special event callsign for http://www.pungostrawberryfestival.info/

(The girl in the video is my sister.. Just fyi.. )

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• festival

[K5EXX]

You need to get a tripod and mount some angle iron on it, like K7AGE did so you can concentrate on the contact and not have to keep looking down so much. Overall a good contact, just not very user friendly.

[KC2UOO]

I thought about making a tripod and putting the radio on it like K7AGE, but I work mostly portable at random locations, lugging more stuff around just wasnt ideal for me.

I do have a radio that can do it all now, So at the very least its only 1 radio instead of the double hookup I used during this one.

[TangoTracker223]

What is the name of that tower?

[KC2UOO]

That is Cronomer hill in newburgh Ny, its an observation tower they built out of an old fire tower that burned down.

[bflavin]

Good vids. I just monitored my first AO51 pass a few minutes ago. I'm going to try transmitting one of these times once I get the hang of it. I only have one radio though, could be a problem. How much power are you using when you do this?

THX and 73

Brody

KD0BSS

[KC2UOO]

I'm just using my handhelds 5 watts. They are fairly old, so it might be a little less then that at this point.

the problem with 1 radio without full duplex is that, you cant hear yourself talking on the sat.. you dont know if you doubled with someone etc etc.. but just wait for a hole, and jump =) Someone usually comes back

[brandon5578]

did you even get QSL?

[USNERDOC]

Hard to watch this video with out cheering for you . . . come on K2FR hit that bird!

Very cool . . . awesome video! Thanks.

[intemister]

wow. a chic in ham radio . wat a dream :P

[grenadelogan]

awsome viedeo!! 73! -from KC9SBG

[RayZorbackWPS]

lol at 3:40 ... with out her, I think you'd be in trouble. :) good vid. I'm a n00b studying for my license now. hope to have one soon so I can join in on the "nerdiness" as she says.

[honigmonster]

You didn't do to bad at all buddy, It's just a matter of getting use to the set-up when using 2 Handhelds. I use 2 all the time. You'll soon get the "feel" of things and won't need to re-check your frequency by looking down when tuning on the downlink. You'll "hear" when tuning is required. It becomes second nature.

Have fun on the birds

Steve ( DL1YAL )

[K5EXX]

Nice vantage point

[LukeDEADwalker]

=)) cool! :)) I'm not good at this stuff, buy you are shitting on their heads right here right? :)) in a very .. subtle way :)) I wonder if you could do that on Area 51 =)