You will find the same situation on VHF/UHF FM and on VHF/UHF weak signal and the same complaints. I heard the same complaints with regard to the analog sats back in the days of AO-13 -- same guys always on, hogging the pass band, running too much power, etc.
Solution - Try something new for a few weeks or months - HF, PSK31, FM simplex, 6 meter FM, 6 M ssb, 40 meter cw, etc. When you get bored with that, then try the sats again.
Tim AA6DQ
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:47:00 -0500 To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: There's no usable satellites
I got to agree with you.
The FM sat's in my option is near useless with all the "using them famous words of the late W2OY" Just way to many "kids, lids and space cadets " Standing in their back yard on a FM HT. Pass after pass it seems to always to be the same people.
Sure do (still) miss AO-40....
John, W0JAB
At 10:28 AM 10/24/2011, you wrote:
Gentlemen,
I have spent too much money on an FT-847!
I had better to buy a well equipped HF transceiver instead!
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