On 7/6/2011 9:48 PM, Dave Guimont wrote:
I don't know how in the world an FM satellite (TWO USER) on a 12 minute pass would help in an emergency...Unless there was only one person involved in the emergency! The other one being the assistance....
Actually, Bob B. said just the other week that they did monthly emergency nets on one of the FM sats and it was organized and worked well.
A lot of us were screaming ssb/cw (READ BANDWIDTH) when AMSAT-NA blew its wad on AO51.
For all the folks who were screaming "SSB", let's compare the number of users using AO-51 alone over the past couple of years to the number of users for all the linear sats in the same timeframe. I'd much rather AMSAT "blow its wad" on a crowded FM satellite then a linear one no one uses.