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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite choices on Field Day",
    "date": "2012-06-22T15:35:41Z",
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    "content": "Hi Joe!\n\n> We have been able to do it with a handheld for the last 5 years.  But we may\n> have geography in our favor :-)\n\nIf I pick my \"battles\" (passes) right, I also benefit from geography here in the\nsouthwest.  I won't even bother with any AO-27 passes to the east of me, and\nwill hope to sneak in a QSO on SO-50 before its footprint covers much of the\nUS.  I operate 1B/1-Op/Battery at 5W on HF and 6m as well as the birds,\nso you can imagine the challenges in getting through without the benefit\nof higher power.  Operating experience does play a big part in making the\nQSOs, especially with the conditions we will hear this weekend.\n\nOn the SSB birds, I may try to work some eastern passes.  I was not as\nsuccessful on SSB last year compared to 2010.  The high-power stations\nthat monopolize the FM birds cripple the SSB transponders, unfortunately.\nBut that's part of the challenge, getting through in less-than-ideal\nconditions....\n\n> THE FOLLOWING COMMENT IS FOR NEXT YEAR!\n>\n> Has anyone considering re-examining the FM satellite rule?  I would like to\n> propose the following:\n>\n> Contacts on the FM satellites can only be made with W1AW and K6KPH.  Those\n> stations could get on with solid signals and pass out contacts.  No other\n> contacts would count.  I believe more contacts would be made, and it would\n> be better to listen to as well.  We would have to get the word out early and\n> often.\n\nIf you are going to limit stations to contacts with a very few stations on the\nFM birds, that would put those satellites in a completely different class\ncompared to the SSB birds or other bands.  At that point, you might as\nwell exclude the FM birds like 3 HF bands (12m, 17m, 30m) are excluded\nfrom Field Day and most other HF contests.  I'd rather not see that\nhappen, even with the chaotic conditions on many of those FM satellite\npasses.  Again, that's part of the challenge.\n\nDuring last year's Field Day, there was a very nice AO-51 pass over the\nwest coast late on Saturday afternoon.  Stations were able to make their\nField Day QSOs, and a couple were even looking to exchange grid\nlocators and not participating in Field Day!  Geography played a big\nrole in that pass, with not much of the footprint going east of the Rockies.\nGood operating by all on that pass also contributed to that pass not\nbeing crazy like others were.\n\nI'll try to make my 1 QSO on AO-27 and SO-50 tomorrow.  If other\nstations call me after I've logged my single QSO, I will attempt to\nrespond and get the other station a satellite QSO.  I never score\nthe additional FM satellite QSOs when I submit my reports to ARRL\nand AMSAT, but the QSOs are listed so I have a complete log of\nmy Field Day effort in my reports.\n\nI will be in the forest somewhere around Flagstaff AZ for Field Day,\nprobably in grid DM45.  I should be able to work some passes before\nthe 1800 UTC start of Field Day at the DM35/DM45 grid boundary for\nthose wanting log a QSO with either - or both - of those grids\n(probably in the 1430-1730 UTC timeframe).  Keep an eye on APRS\nat http://aprs.fi/wd9ewk-9 to get an idea of where I am for those\nearlier passes, and updates will also be posted on Twitter using\n@WD9EWK or at http://twitter.com/wd9ewk\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n",
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