I think it’s great. There are already too many awards for people sitting at their rig working every possible station they hear and too little for those doing the hard work. A lot of rare grids were activated last year and a large portion of these were promoted on social media. This has allowed for so many more people to catch a rover in places that may not be active again for years or even a lifetime. The act of roving is selfless and giving credit to those who go out of their way to help as many people as possible is long overdue.
Now I just need to figure out where I’m going to go for my next /mm activation and make sure it’s worthy of writing a journal article.
73, W8LID
On Jan 1, 2018, at 00:20, Jim Walls jim@k6ccc.org wrote:
On 12/31/2017 20:46, Bruce wrote: Be the first on your block to receive the new AMSAT Award. Yes, after many years, AMSAT has a new award. Visit http://www.amsat.org
click on Services, then Awards and then the very first award on the top (hint... it is the new one)
Why are you awarding more points for almost any other aspect of this award for something that has nothing to do with radio, satellites, or operating on those? More points for a social media post than for operating? Really?
-- 73
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