Yes, Jean Marc. Many of us would be willing and anxious to help -- I don't want to scare newcomers away. But if they don't reach out to us, and if they don't make an email address available on their QRZ page, it isn't possible. Of course, they probably aren't reading here, either! -- Mark D. Johns, KØJM AMSAT Ambassador & News Service Editor Brooklyn Park, MN USA EN35hd ----------------------------------------------- "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ---Mark Twain
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:09 AM Jean Marc Momple jean.marc.momple@gmail.com wrote:
Mark,
Well said “OR IF YOU DON'T HEAR YOURSELF, the problem is on your end. So fix your receiver “.
That said it is incredible that many OM’s do not do a minimum of home work (WEB research etc..) before TXing (not only on the LEO Birds but also on GEO now).
When I was a trainee long ago each time I put to my “Boss" a question which if I was reading the documentation the answer would be obvious, his reply was RTFM, after a few days I asked him what RTFM means and he simply said calmly "Read The F… Manual”.
My observation so far is that if some doing things which are not right is due most probably because they do not RTFM as many infos available on the net, or do not dare (or shy) to ask for help from others (e.g. on this forum). There is no stupid question, not knowing is not a shame, not asking for help when one does not know is, eventually causing issues. So simple.
73
Jean Marc (3B8DU) also AMSAT Ambassador this side of the planet
On May 4, 2020, at 7:29 PM, Mark D. Johns via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Folks, if you can't hear yourself on the downlink, please don't keep calling CQ!
On passes of CAS4-4B and CAS-4A today, there were at least three different stations calling CQ repeatedly, sometimes right on top of other QSOs. They were each answered by multiple stations, but just kept calling CQ, again and again.
I will not post callsigns here, and if email addresses had been available on QRZ.com I would have written to each individually. But these satellites are very active, so if no one is coming back to you, or you don't hear other signals as you tune across the passband, OR IF YOU DON'T HEAR YOURSELF, the problem is on your end. So fix your receiver! -- Mark D. Johns, KØJM AMSAT Ambassador & News Service Editor Brooklyn Park, MN USA EN35hd
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