El 18/02/16 a las 15:26, Peter Goodhall escribió:
We can strip down exchange information to just be 2E0SQL EA1JM IO91 or if we don't bother even with that 2E0SQL EA1JM.. I'm not really sure it constitutes a contact by my licence regulations.
I don't think that the licence regulations have any say on what constitutes a contact or actually try say so. That's for the ham community to decide. I can speak only for the Spanish and UK regulations, which are the ones that I've ever read.
The EME and meteor scatter communities have a very clear idea of what constitutes a contact for them, because they're only always working under marginal conditions, so they try to send the least information possible.
There's far greater issues like people calling over the top of in progress QSOs, deliberate jamming etc which should be dealt with first, if this was taken care of then more QSOs on FM satellites could take place and that extra two letters wouldn't really make a real difference.
I agree with that. For me, the worst problem in FM satellites is people calling over and over without being able to hear the satellite. It would be fun to record some passes and study how much time gets wasted with such issues and how much time is used to actually make QSOs. I have the impression that more than half of the time gets wasted usually.
73,
Dani EA4GPZ.