About 50 years ago during the SSB wars, Dubya TOO Ole Yankee, W2OY, was notorious for calling, *"CQ CQ, don't want any KIDS, LIDS or BUS PATROLS, just good clean A M signals!" * This describes at least three groups in ham radio today, not just on HF.
Kids *having fun* LIDS *being LIDS* Bus Patrols*commenting on the first two and jealous that they can't participate "their way"*.
Only thing changed is 50 years have passed and the topic is satellites, not AM.
Jim
On 6/27/2011 12:12 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
In my several years of being a licensed ham, this is the theme of most contacts about SAT work. The OSCAR class stations always just do whatever they want. It seems that the attitude is, I've spent the time and money to have this kind of station, and I'm entitled to use it at my discretion. I think it is great to see this kind of dedication to operating, but as many are saying here and have said before, it seems a little bit more than unfair that a single resource on the other end, is not shared fairly, especially for equipment which was intended to be shared.
Satellites are limited resources. If you put a lot of time and money into your station to use that limited resource, you might also consider putting some time and money into getting additional resources up in the air so that it's easier for you to make good use of your system.
Nothing is free in this world...
Gregg Wonderly W5GGW
On 6/27/2011 10:54 AM, wa4hfn@comcast.net wrote:
Field Day to my understanding is to see how ops can get on the with the bare minimum of equipment needed to make the contact.NOT to blast the **** out of the bird and walk all over the little guy trying to play fair.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff KB2M"kb2m@comcast.net To: "AMSAT"amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 10:35:35 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FD Mess
If it wasn't for the Oscar class stations making "HI POWER multi contacts" who would help the vast majority of weak portable FD stations make their one FD contact? Certainly not a weak station calling CQ for 5 passes! I've never heard two OCS making contact with each other, it's always with a much weaker station. This is the other side of the same argument heard every year after FD. Anyway I got my contact :)
73 Jeff kb2m 2A SNJ
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of wa4hfn@comcast.net Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:14 AM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] FD Mess
It took me 5 satellite passes before I could make 1 contact There were too many ops making what sounded like HI POWER multi contacts .This should not have happened. Maybe someone with good writting skills could send the ARRL world above 50 an artical on how to work the birds during FD WA4HFN em55 Damon
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