Zach While I respect your views on #6 I disagree Rovers spend lots of time and personal funds to activate rare and non-ham populated grids for FMer's As the Ham Creed states - a Ham is always courteous to all operations 73 Dan VA3MA
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:49 PM Zach Metzinger zmetzing@pobox.com wrote:
On 12/11/17 14:55, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
Sean Kutzko, KX9X, has written a helpful document explaining good operating practices for working FM satellites. It's been posted to the AMSAT website at
https://www.amsat.org/fm-satellites-good-operating-practices-for-beginning-a...
While I think that _most_ of these guidelines are good, I disagree with #6.
- Rare/Portable Stations Take Priority
This prioritizes the chase-a-grid-square game players, which not everyone cares about.
If you want to play that game, go use a linear bird with more available bandwidth. The easy sats should be reserved for new satellite operators, which, buy definition, will be less experienced and not care much about your fancy grid squares.
73,
--- Zach N0ZGO
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