Familiarity.
Everyone has experience working FM voice repeaters but not as many have experience sending APRS messages.
Even if they fail to work the FM voice sat they at least basically know how.
Also, tbh, if PSAT and PSAT2 are as easy to use as the ISS digipeater I am not that sure it is easy. I've only tried a handful of times but when I complete a contact I am surprised. Very often it is hard to get a QSO confirmed.
Also sending messages is kind of tedious and isn't as cool as hearing someone's voice.
Now I'm getting into preferences. Anyway... On field day we should use the underused sats and modes before FM voice so in that sense I agree with you.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 23:17 Robert Bruninga bruninga@usna.edu wrote:
Am I missing something? Why fight the congestion on an FM bird where only a few will be sucesful and all the rest fail. when you can make a contac via PSAT2 easily. for only 1 second per APRS message contact... Both PSAT and PSAT2 are fully operational.
Bob, WB4APR
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 7:30 PM Bill Booth ve3nxk@gmail.com wrote:
On 2021-06-18 8:08 p.m., tjschuessler--- via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I need a little catch up on some status issues.
After being off the sats for maybe 7 years or so, I began to get ready
to try them
again. Lately I have been looking for this information but also
listening off and
on to see which ones are used regularly. So far my list says...
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