Thanks Glenn, Isaac ! I appreciate the help.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 1:52 PM Isaac C shorenicehere@gmail.com wrote:
Mike, I am Isaac, W4ITC, grid FM14. I am maybe two weeks ahead of you in the newbie category. I just got my first QSO/QSL on March 12. I connected with W0NBC. After me, you can hear WB3CSY do an expert connection with someone else. I listened to many passed before I was brave enough to talk. It probably shows. My rig is qty 2 Baofengs @ 5w with a WA5VJB home-made antenna.
Best luck.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14YSF3hL6NBtRMkcw3gDcx8VURQ3dBUNl/view?usp=d...
On Thursday, March 19, 2020, Mike Wilhelm via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I've been collecting equipment and waiting for the right time to try and get on a bird. Life is too busy... Anyway, it might be helpful if there were a few audio examples we could pass on to newbies and uninformed operators of good and bad operating. I would recommend beeping out any parts of the call sign for any examples of poor operation. I'd sure like to hear them. Maybe even post them to a section on the AMSAT page covering operating? I apologize if this is already out there...back to that too busy thing again. I haven't had many opportunities to take my FT-470 outside with my Arrow and chase a bird. The QSOs I've heard seem like they go so fast and I'd hate to annoy anyone by being the slowpoke. 73! Mike AF5AT
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:52 PM Brad Smith via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
I am a minimalist because I want to be a minimalist. I understand that
the
FM bird is nothing more than a repeater and the strongest signal takes
the
bird, even if someone else is talking. "Someone else is talking" is the rude part. Last weekend, I was chasing a rover and got "KC9" out and
into
the bird (I work full duplux, so know that I was in) and someone took
over
by stepping on me. Luckily, I got him anyway, but someone was high power and more important than me. That's the way contesters work. But, I don't want to plaster someone's call on the board. I just hope that the
person is
a member and thinks about it. Getting into a peeing contest with
someone is
not beneficial to anybody, including the hobby. It used to be that if
one
said "handheld" or "portable" guys would give them a break, but that doesn't happen anymore. The birds are too crowded for that. There are several people in my ham clubs that want to try satellite operation and myself and my friend Rick (WA9JBQ) loves to mentor them and teach them the proper way to operate. Not everyone has this benefit. I don't know what the answer is. Last Spring one ham was
an
extremely poor operator on the birds, but is now a better operator. So, something works. But there is always the tendency to crank up the power
to
get the station that you want, if you have the power available. It is
like
guys who I know that run 1,500 watts on FT8 to get what they want. I
guess
it is going to happen and we have to live with that fact.
As soon as I solve my equipment problem with my 847 and the weather
turns
warmer, I will be back on the linear birds. I sure do miss FO-29. Brad KC9UQR _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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