Personally I think the definition of satellite (for this at least) should be anything that is not fixed to the ground. This can include a balloon, the ISS, or just regular amateur satellites. It would be nice to see the ARRL include balloons for field day, right?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM, John Price n4qwf1@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like APRS to me!
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:05 PM, John Price n4qwf1@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:04 PM, John Price n4qwf1@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like APRS to me!
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM, George Henry ka3hsw@att.net wrote:
The ARRL Field Day rules are available at
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2008/fd.html . Rule 7.3.7 covers satellite QSOs, and states "The QSO must be between two Earth stations through a satellite."
73,
George, KA3HSW
"Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@UNITED.NET wrote: I should add that I am looking for something concerning the ARRL FD
rules.
I have already found an explanation for the AMSAT FD rules, but they
are not
always the same.
Alan WA4SCA
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