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.
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