Hi Eric, ON4HF
Before to call F2IL an European alligator and give bad publicity on AMSAT-BB I suggest you to use more fair play and send to him an email and explain to him the problem occurred to day on SO-50
As far I know my friend Jean Marie is an expert satellite operator and I have with him many correct QSO's on all the linear birds.
Here is the email address of Jean Marie F2IL
f2il@orange.fr
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Knaps, ON4HF" on4hf@telenet.be To: "Amsat - BBS" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:21 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] European alligator on SO-50 (F2IL)
Today I wanted to use my arrow and portable to make a qso on SO-50. M6DNU (also portable) called me but it took 5 minutes to complete that contact. F2IL was constantly calling cq on top of us. Do these guys even listen to the downlink?? Give portable stations also a change please! We only have 2 watts of rf power. Where is the "ham spirit" these days? 73, Eric.
-- Amateur Radio Station ON4HF Eric Knaps Satellite manager UBA
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