Hi Peter!
A Field Day practice session, you say? I don't know about the FM birds, but almost every evening for the week or so before Field Day that was going on over the ISS and NO-84. That worked well for three of us... I would work Fernando NP4JV and Rick K7TEJ on the ISS and NO-84 passes, refining the technique to send and receive APRS messages to make QSOs. This had to have helped us, as we were all successful in making packet QSOs through the orbiting digipeaters. I worked Fernando at K7RDG in southern Arizona, and Rick at WK7B east of me near Flagstaff. More about this in a separate e-mail, which I'll post to the AMSAT-BB shortly.
As last week went on, I started hearing some call signs on SO-50 passes that weren't normally on. This seemed to be for pre-Field Day practice, and it was nice to hear. I still heard lots of stations on SO-50 passes that sounded like they could have used the practice, but that's how Field Day goes on the satellites...
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Peter Laws plaws0@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net wrote:
That's a great idea! A pre-Field Day event in April or May is something that would certainly be doable.
"Field Day Tune Up"? "Field Day Practice Session"?