I heard this during the ARRL UHF contest back in August as well and found it amusing. They are correct, though, and not violating the bandplan as the AO7 uplink is in the weak signal part of the band-that is what happends when your satellites lives for 35 years-band plans change
It would be nice if some of these stations discovered that their terrestial equipment will work fine on the satellites, that is how I became an accidential satellite op.
73s John AA5JG
--- On Sun, 9/13/09, w7lrd@comcast.net w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:
From: w7lrd@comcast.net w7lrd@comcast.net Subject: [amsat-bb] accidental satellite ops To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 3:46 PM
I noticed yesterday while AO-7 was in mode B over the US there were several stations who were working the VHF contest this weekend. The downlinks sigs were LSB and obviously oblivious they were uplinking to AO-7. I emailed some of them, maybe we can create some accidental satellite aficianados.
73 Bob W7LRD
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