Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 13, Issue 218

25 Jun 2018

      Unfortunately I heard way too many groups working multiple stations on FM satellites clearly violating that rule during FD.
73, Adrian AA5UK
On Monday, June 25, 2018, 6:27:08 AM CDT, Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net wrote:
The rules already limit FM QSOs to one.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 01:21 Mac A. Cody maccody@att.net wrote:
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Greg,
Yeah.  Icertainly wouldn't make the bonus too much larger than 100
points.  Don't know how one would penalize for multiple QSOs. You
might make the one you need and then another station would call you.
I'd keep it at only one QSO allowed for the bonus and nothing more.
This would allow for a station to work others to help them get their
bonus, too, but only if that station wanted to help.  My guess is that
a lot of stations would bow out once they got their one QSO. That, I
hope, would free up the FM satellites fairly quickly.
Mac / AE5PH
On 06/25/2018 12:01 AM, Greg D wrote:
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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:
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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:
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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...
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http://www.valleymedia.org/satchat/2018-06-23-2033z-sat-Ao-91-cq-fd-mess-ham...
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Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 13, Issue 218

Adrian Engele