Hi!
The document Sean KX9X created for the AMSAT web site is in the same tradition as the documents offered on the Station and Operating Hints page on AMSAT's web site:
https://www.amsat.org/station-and-operating-hints/
I don't think any of the documents listed there went through any discussion or vote, before being placed on that page. Some of those articles appeared in the AMSAT Journal, and others were posted in other places online but brought to this page as a one-stop place to find this sort of useful information. AMSAT has people that review what is presented on its web site and distributed in its name, so it isn't like KX9X "went rogue" in creating the document and posting it on the AMSAT web site.
This mailing list is an ideal place to discuss what KX9X wrote. I expressed my opinion about it on Monday, suggesting a tweak to one part of it, but also said I liked it. Do you have objections to anything in KX9X's document? Nowhere has it been said that the document represents a set of rules we must follow when working FM satellites, or even AMSAT's FM satellites (AO-85 and AO-91). Just suggestions, and - in my opinion - good suggestions.
I don't have your call signs, current or previous, in my log from a satellite QSO. I'd like to work you sometime, whether it is on AO-91 or one of the other satellites. I think if you tried working some passes, you would gain an appreciation of what has been said in that document.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 8:11 PM, kg5jup kg5jup@gmail.com wrote:
Hello there! I am one of the ones you speak of and my only issue was how the suvesstions were presented and that someone can just post to AMSAT site with out a vote or discussion.