Re: [amsat-bb] ARRL Field Day

23 Jun 2017

      What Sean says, goes, but as you say, Paul, the language of the ARRL rules is confusing:
"You do not receive an additional bonus for contacting different satellites, though theadditional QSOs may be counted for QSO credit."
I can read that either way, so I suggest that the ARRL rule be reworded next year to eliminate the ambiguity.
73 Ray W2RS
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net
To: Sean K. kx9x@yahoo.com
Cc: rsoifer1 rsoifer1@aol.com; amsat-bb amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 7:45 am
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ARRL Field Day
Thanks for confirming my interpretation.
Determining what you can submit for AMSAT and ARRL can be a bit
confusing. For example, I made 97 QSOs on satellite last year. 8 of
those were dupes of the same station on the same satellite, 6 of those
were FM QSOs that were in excess of one FM QSO (there was an AO-85
pass early on Sunday morning where a bunch of stations were just
calling, but no one was actually making any QSOs, so I just worked
them all). So 83 QSOs counted for AMSAT Field Day. Then I had to
remove my dupes of the same station on different satellites, so I was
left with a total of 58 QSOs that were countable for ARRL Field Day.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Sean K. via AMSAT-BB
amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
...
Hi all-
ARRL Field Day rules lump all satellites together as a single band: "Satellite."
While you are limited to one QSO on the FM satellites, there is no limit to the number of QSOs you can make on transponder sats. Sean Kutzko Amateur Radio KX9X
  From: rsoifer1--- via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org>

To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
 Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 10:21 AM
 Subject: [amsat-bb] ARRL Field Day
Jeff and Paul,
The way I read ARRL FD rule 7.3.7, each satellite is a separate "band," though you can make only one QSO on each FM satellite (unlimited on non-FM sats).  Only one 100-point bonus, though.
Look for me from WE7GV on FO-29 and possibly AO-7.
73 Ray W2RS

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