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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/RLSXDWHXIURUEJ4AJ4A5ATW2TCBAGW5I/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "RLSXDWHXIURUEJ4AJ4A5ATW2TCBAGW5I", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/OB4T2LEKVFQR3XXMJFQJSUF7PAUNBMM2/", "sender": { "address": "kk5do (a) amsat.org", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Bruce", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] QSO Protocol", "date": "2016-10-03T13:40:16Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WMVAMEOVGBEFXQSSEAMRUAT4SURQOEPT/", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "i thought i would let this run a bit and see what transpired. i get \nreally annoyed when i hear someone in a rare grid (let's just take CY9C \nfor example) and people go back and forth with call and grid several times.\n\nwhen i did a bit of traveling, my trick in maximizing my contacts was to \nlisten for a bit when i first heard the satellite and write down all the \ncalls i hear. if i wrote it down, i heard it, right? then i get on the \nair and announce myself giving my call and grid and ask for people to \ncall me once. i put a check mark next to their call when they call back \n(now, they heard my call or they would not have come back to me and i am \nverifying their call again with my check mark).\n\nthen when there is a pause, i get back on the air and say xx1xx, xx2xx, \nxx3xx, xx4xx, i have you any others? i write down the list i hear and go \nback and say yy1yy, yy2yy, yy3yy, i have you. i only had to give my grid \nonce at the beginning and i really could care less what grid you are in, \ni am not going to write it down nor repeat it back to you. i have no \ninterest in trying to earn vucc from a grid i work from once or twice. \nif i recognize your voice, i even had your call down before i heard you \ngive it.\n\nwe made a two way contact because i copied your call, you copied mine \nand we are all good. with this method, i can log about 10-20 stations in \na very short time. everyone gets in that wants to. with short satellite \npasses, it is virtually impossible to do back and forth and back and \nforth and then there is always the 'thanks for the contact, have fun'. i \nknow it is polite and you would like to do it but on satellite passes, \nit is just not possible unless only a few get in and that is what i saw \non several of the CY9C passes on SO-50.\n\nmaybe it is not the best plan but it worked good for me and there were \nmany more sat operators on the air back in the ao-10/13 and ao-40 days \nthan now.\n\n73...bruce\n\n-- \n\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\n \nAMSAT Director Contests and Awards\nAMSAT Board Member 2016-2018\nAMSAT Board Alternate 2015-2016\n \nARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE\n \nHouston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT*\nAlso live streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com\nPodcast at http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes\n \nLatest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News\nhttp://www.arrl.org\n\nAMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat\n\n", "attachments": [] }