It was positively chatty on the westward pass of AO-51 this morning. For fun, I reduced power to just 1w on my HT, and nobody seemed to notice, although it did get scratchy at the end of the pass.

Dec 16 pass of AO-51, 8:57 Local Time

The beginning of the pass is a little noisy, because for some reason I thought the pass was going to the east, when it was in fact a western pass. I was fishing around with the antenna, trying to track it to the east. Once I realize how stupid I was, it settles in to a fairly strong signal.