I used GPredict to plan my day and produced the following “Sky at a glance” chart:
So about 5:15 PM Local Time (21:15 UTC), a decent pass of AO-7 was overhead. I heard several CW signals (K4RGK was one of them), but I wasn’t able to locate myself on the downlink (either CW or SSB).
I then switched over to XW-2F (Downlink 145.980-146.000 MHz) and heard myself on the downlink, just a few hundred hertz off frequency on SSB. I didn’t hear anyone else on the bird however.
A pass of XW-2C (Downlink 145.795-145.815 MHz) began about 30 minutes later (21:54 UTC). Despite being about 0.6 KHz high on my transmit, I made two contacts:
N8HM, Paul, from FM18 (Washington DC) on 435.157 at 21:55:35
WI9I, George, from EM59 (Springfield IL) on 435.163 at 21:59:28
