John and all,
There are apparently several stations. I heard a part of a call "?A9??" on voice and at another time "/R" on CW on the 20:00Z pass of AO-27 over the US. Someone else was complaining of a strong unmodulated carrier for awhile. I guess I'll have to set the computer up to start recording. I doubt it's malicious. Hopefully it's just "I didn't know". But, as time passes, they will perceive ownership of the frequency, of course.
Bob
--- "John Marranca, Jr" jmarranca@bnsystems.com wrote:
Hello all. I, too, have noticed this happen. I saw it first at the Rochester Hamfest this year when Rich N2SPI was giving his demo on the birds (...this is how I became interested in ham sats). During his excellent demo, two hams were chatting about pizza, and the like. I can recall this happening during the Mode K Russian sat days. Quite honestly, I think it's rude and selfish that any person would not follow a gentleman's agreement bandplan. (Reminds me of a local guy about 15 years ago that would talk to his buddies on 144.000 FM.)
It's sad, really.
John KB2HSH
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