A bit of image processing with gimp yielded the following on a night time pass. It wasn’t particularly good with respect to noise: on the night passes the contrast is pretty low , so you get difficulties when you try to extract good images. Still, I’m not displeased…
I was monitoring a routine pass of AO-51 this morning, just listening to some rag chewing, not really diving in myself, until we heard XF4YW calling. One of the regulars identified him as a rare DX, so we all tried to work him from DK48. I had no idea where DK48 was, or that XF4YW would be rare, but it turns out that Eduardo was operating AO-51 as part of a DX expedition to the Mexican island of Socorro. I don’t think he got my call correctly, but still, it was pretty neat. The expedition runs until the 15th of December, so I’ll be listening for him to make sure I work him again.
Here’s the mp3 of the pass. He shows up in the second half of the pass.
Addendum: You can read up about Socorro Island on Wikipedia. It’s area is only 132 square kilometers.