I heard you at least once, early in the pass. I tried calling you from K2J as that would be a fun colony to colony contact.
The pass was fairly hectic. Sorry you experienced that. It unfortunately is not uncommon on FM passes, and yes, that is why some prefer linear sats.
I will say it is not always that bad and sometimes a lot of people will make a lot of contacts and when it's really orderly it is actually impressive to hear how so many people can share such a limited resource.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 18:48 Dave via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I just finished listening to a SO-50 which I was going to try to work as K2A if I could get in. I've only worked FM birds a couple of times before and I remember it being busy but that was just stupid. I'll either try off hours or stick to linear sats. Not to start something but man I hope we can get some higher orbit linear satellites again :-(
Dave N2OA
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:03 AM Dave kdcarlso@gmail.com wrote:
I will be operating K2A this week as a representative of NY for the event and hope to work some of the satellites during the week from FN03. I'm still a newbie but I have a pair of eggbeaters up and can work the linear or FM sats when everything cooperates. I will post on the AMSAT-NA
group and will use twitter @AMSAT when I know I'll be on.
Dave N2OA
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