The sad part is the worst offenders are repeat offenders. They aren't people who are new to satellites. They aren't people new to ham radio. They are experienced operators who refuse to accept any responsibility when it comes to their poor operating practices.
Publishing their call signs on the front cover of QST wouldn't matter because the worst, repeat offenders simply refuse to acknowledge the problem. They live along a river known as DENIAL.
Occasionally many of us, myself included, are caught running too much uplink power. Perhaps it's a high elevation pass. As Paul N8HM pointed out, sometimes 5 watts into an Arrow is too much!
73, Clayton W5PFG
On 8/3/2015 23:10, Gary Mayfield wrote:
If you could copy the cq could you copy the call?
At 432 MHz the AO-7 uplink is actually in the weak signal part of the band. It is very possible a weak signal station unknowingly did this...
A friendly email to the station may help!
73, Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stoetzer Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 4:08 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Are we ever going to learn?
AO-7 was sounding pretty good. Very strong signals over North America around 2200Z, I was having a nice QSO with KC4LE, reducing my power to 1 watt when my signal started to warble a bit, until someone started CQing in CW with such a strong signal that the whole passband was pulsing up and down. Eventually the Mode B transponder shut off under the strain.
Using excessive power on a linear transponder is a violation of two sections of Part 97: using minimum power necessary to complete the communcations and causing harmful interference to other stations. We need an ARRL OO to listen to a few passes and send some OO notices!
73,
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