Thant is great info.

K4AMG will be GOTA station at the W4CAR FD. Since we have SSB CW we will not operate SO 50 because of the congestion.

We tried FD last year but had to many program and other failures with an old HR Deluxe.

Hope to work you all from Deep Creek Lock Park on the Waterway in Chesapeake, VA FM 16.

R W4BUE

----- Original Message ----- From: "Greene, Stephan A" [email protected] To: "Rich/wa4bue" [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:50 AM Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] ANS-159 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

Like Paul said, Class (# TX and A/B/C/D/E) and ARRL Section. E.g, for me (operating as K4LRG), it will be 5A VA. I've noticed sat and VHF ops often add the 4-character grid square ID, but class and section are all that is required for FD.

ARRL treats ALL satellites as ONE BAND for scoring. I can work you twice in total for FD scoring, once on voice and once on CW/digital (I think CW & digital modes are treated the same, although it's moot as ISS is the only transponder supporting non-CW digital). Anything beyond that is a dupe. If the QSO is on SO-50 or LO-78 (our operating FM birds), that's the ONE ALLOWED FM QSO.

AMSAT uses different scoring - each satellite counts as a separate band. So we could work each other twice (SSB, CW) on AO-7, FO-29, VO-52, ...

73 & GL. Steve

Steve Greene KS1G Fm18hx [email protected]

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-----Original Message----- From: Rich/wa4bue [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 3:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ANS-159 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

What is the FD exhange on QSCAR?