Are you kidding. It would be a wild West shootout on Field Day (remember there is NO limit on the number of QSOs on the linear sats) Field Day on this satellite would be wall to wall 24 hour contacts. it would make the HF ops with their limited openings salivate at the prospects of what ... 1000 sat contacts, 2000 contacts, more? I can see the sat station by itself with more contacts than all the HF stations at a club's site on FD. Then the sat station would decide where the club would setup. How many could one station work in 1 hour and multiple that by 24. Is there a limit of only one sat station on FD or could we run multiple rigs? The last good FD for me was when AO40 was up. I told my club that i will not even bother going to their FD next year basically because of the sat situation (no help and basically no birds to waste my time and effort).
Les W4SCO
At 04:14 PM 10/31/2007, you wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. One of the things that brought me back into ham radio was the challenge and new experiences. But a geosat sounds like it would be nothing more than an internet chatroom - all it takes is a connection. Don't get me wrong, it will be great for EMCOMM. But, other than that, meh.
Bob
--- Michael Tondee [email protected] wrote:
This is kind of along the lines of what I was thinking. Please don't get me wrong, I think AMSAT has an excellent opportunity here but won't this take some of the challenge out of things? I missed AO-40 altogether and I'm not active now because I had to sell my equipment but what originally drew me to sat operation in the first place was the challenge and thrill of working birds like the LEO linear and FM birds. I enjoy watching the footprint move across my PC screen. Heck, sometimes I just liked to go out on the deck on a not particularly good pass and watch the antennas track! I'll certainly be back in business for geostationary piggy back systems and use them but I'm thinking it will seem rather ordinary. Any ham who is capable of pointing an antenna to a fixed spot can become satellite active. I know, I know, thats good but it also takes away some of the novelty of it. I guess we can still challenge ourselves with P3E. Again, please don't misconstrue my intention here, I'm not meaning to criticize or complain, I'm just making an observation. 73, Michael, W4HIJ [email protected] wrote:
Hello To play the devils advocate for a moment. With a geo (stuck) sattelite we are pretty much stuck with the same foot
print forever. Unless of course there is some sort of cross linking in the future. I very fondly recall AO-40 and bringing it up on my computer and seeing where the foot print was today. Maybe it's the Europeans or perhaps the VK's, ZL's (love their accent), or maybe some JA's, (practice my Japanese). At some time, I knew I could cover the whole planet. I do of course believe this is an excellent opportunity, though there are a some limitations.
-- 73 Bob W7LRD AMSAT member 28498 Seattle _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur
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