Gentlemen,
Please give these guys a chance to answer one call at a time. If you can't hear the downlink, don't transmit. All sixteen stations could have made the QSO with some cooperation.
73, Drew KO4MA
Drew,
I tried ao51 this evening during a good pass. They guys on it just kept keying up constantly and didn't give me a chance to get on. W4AS mentioned this on the air and they just kept sending their signals without giving me a chance to answer. I heard 16 different stations but only worked Wp4cnu, n5znl, ve3npc. It was getting dark and about half way thru when I was changing the downlink frequency I forgot to go back on transmit and screwed up the last 3 or4 min of the pass by not transmitting. I am going to try to make at least 1 contact per day but can't make every pass. Ao51 seems much better than so50 on my downlink but please put out the word to give the callsign and have everyone wait about 5 seconds after they hear a callsign for me for me to answer. Hopefully I will be able to be on for 1 or 2 passes per day.