Clint,
I'll send you and Bob the recording of the pass I was speaking of. :) It is trimmed from the full 6 minutes I could hear the pass.
But to elaborate... For a solid 2.25 minutes not a single QSL to be heard on a SO-50 pass while stations tried to access the bird. Ending with a frustrated station pleading with other hams to let one guy answer at a time. Certainly didn't help that there were 2 rovers on the pass.
The purpose of my PM to Bob was to thank him for getting the XYL and I 4 new grids. I get his frustration on the FM birds and hope that he will continue on. (Un)fortunately working satellites seems to be a very hot topic lately. It's great that so many more hams are giving it a shot, but that does make those FM satellites a bit harder to work successfully (if at all) during a pass.
73
-Ant NU1U
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:28 AM Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Your cited message tells me really nothing.
One person’s “mayhem” might be seen by another as an “exciting pile-up, with so many trying to access an FM satellite.”
I’ll get straight answers elsewhere - thanks anyway.
Clint Bradford K6LCS
On Mar 15, 2021, at 7:51 PM, Bob Liddy (K8BL) k8bl@ameritech.net wrote:
... It was complete mayhem ...
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