AO-51 from inside…

January 4, 2008 | Amateur Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Well, the weather today sucks. We have 40mph gusts, and are expecting a full 2 inches of rain. That being said, I decided to try to work AO-51 as it came overhead by standing in my living room with my handheld yagi. It wasn’t stellar, but I did manage to get W8SME (you can hear him tease me that it isn’t “shorts weather” since I usually have been operating in shorts and a T-shirt from my front yard). The interference from the roof made it pretty difficult to receive and even harder to receive, but you can hear a bit of the traffic.

Pass recorded from my living room, pretty marginal.