AMEN brother!
I called CQ multiple times on AO-7 in CW last night between 145.940 and 145.944 (downlink), and NOBODY was tuning down that far. I found that very disappointing, as I did the close proximity of all the stations on FO-29 and VO-52.
I believe a lot of us could have made a lot more contacts on the linear satellites if we'd just used the passband.
Thanks for this post Drew!
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL -------------- Original message from "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com: --------------
I took this screen grab of this morning's eastern FO-29 pass, and what it shows is in my opinion very illustrative of a problem that is getting worse even on days other than Field Day.
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/radio/FO-29FDanotated.jp...
Spread out! There is no good reason that we should have a dozen operators fighting over the center 15 kHz of a 100 kHz wide transponder. Remember the gentlemen's agreement is the lower third is for CW, middle 1/3 is for mixed ops, and the upper 1/3 is for SSB. There is nothing magic about the Doppler shift at the very center of the passband that simple addition and subtraction can't duplicate elsewhere.
Just my opinion, and please take it constructively.
73, Drew KO4MA
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