AMSAT Operations folks, with assistance from AMSAT Engineering geeks, err, engineers, have been working to improve performance of AO-51. We have seen this social phenomenon repeatedly according to the operations folks. As we up the usability of the bird by increasing transmitter power, the number of competing stations with all of the obvious behaviors come out. It has been my experience in AMSAT since I first became active in the early 1970's, after the kinds of changes we have been making become the norm, the "transient response" dies down to a small hum!
Be patient with your fellow satellite users.
Bob N4HY
Cathryn Mataga wrote:
Steve wrote:
I find this post Unbelievable.
I've been moderately active on AO51 since it was first launched and have yet to hear anyone refuse to allow another access to the satellite.
If the satellite is quiet, then why shouldn't a conversational qso be allowed?
Maybe the chaos is more of an east coast thing? I'm not sure if it's as busy here in California as it is on the east coast. At least I had kind of a casual low key chat, on a Sunday evening awhile back. I heard SO-50 fly by with one guy calling CQ, and me fumbling around looking for how to set the PL, and nobody else answering. _______________________________________________