The Winter FD event is new, and has a much smaller participation compared to the summer event. I don't think what worked for the winter event can scale to the summer one. Imagine the chaos that would be caused by having a large prize awarded for a satellite contact in the summer event, causing a correspondingly large number of participants to attempt a contact. It would certainly bring additional attention and interest in making a satellite contact; perhaps too much.
But, your point about not having additional points awarded is good; perhaps even take away points for multiple contacts on the FM birds.
Greg KO6TH
Mac A. Cody wrote:
One alternative for scoring could be to adopt the approach used for Winter Field Day. For Winter Field Day, a station can net a 1500-point bonus for one satellite QSO. There are no additional points for subsequent QSOs. Not saying that 1500 points would be awarded for an ARRL Field Day satellite QSO, but more than 100 points.
73,
Mac Cody / AE5PH
On 06/24/2018 01:20 PM, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB wrote:
AO-92 FM on FD... what a mess, wish it was in L-band today.. , perhapswould be better to score points just for listening ONLY and getting call sign's + exchange from the bird to get more operators HEARING the bird and less trying to transmit without being able to hear it...say 1 point for each callsign and exchange monitored...and 2 for each qso after the first one.... something to get guys listening more and less trying to key them up ( perhaps for first time... ) just a thought...ko6kLaudio recording. http://www.valleymedia.org/satchat/2018-06-24-1800z--AO92-FM-Uv--CQFD-mess-k...
http://www.valleymedia.org/satchat/2018-06-23-2033z-sat-Ao-91-cq-fd-mess-ham...
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