New Radio on AO-51

January 29, 2008 | Amateur Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Well, last night I went and programmed in the various doppler shifted frequencies for AO-51 into the new FT-817, and then this morning worked the morning pass half duplex with Leo, W7JPI and W6GMT. The recording of course doesn’t include my own voice, but the audio quality was really good. You can occasionally hear a beep tone, that’s where I hit the up switch on the mic to move to the next pre-programmed Doppler setting. Very nice.

AO-51, Morning of Jan 29, 2008 with the FT-817