Heard LOTS of stations on the first passes of AO-27, SO-50, and AO-51 (V/U) that obviously didn't read the new rules, making one contact after another, even after being told "only ONE contact per FM satellite!"
I did manage to make my one contact each, and then focused on AO-07 and VO-52 for the rest of the contest. Made 20 more contacts on those. AO-07 is very interesting to listen to when she's being hit with too much power on CW... hearing someone's voice being "bounced" by the ditty-dots!
Sure did miss FO-29!!!
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@UNITED.NET To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:15 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FD Contacts!
Didn't even monitor the digital birds. <grin> The voice birds were busy, with the usual suspects running enough power, usually on CW, to bounce the entire passband on AO-7 and VO-52. SO-50 and AO-51 VU were the usual mess, but a lot of QSOs got made. The mode LU on AO-51 was probably the only "civilized" operation, due to the manageable number of operators. I suspect that nearly everybody who wanted the point got one if they were patient, no matter how marginal the signal. So let's do it again next year!
Alan WA4SCA