Sat operators: When I started in satellites in the 1990,s.things were different. They had a person that sort of monitored a lot of satellite passes and conversations. He was a ham that operated sats too. What he did was sort of police the operators, When you used too much power he sent you an e- mail. I believe the rule of thumb to operate on the satellite is never use no morepower on the uplink than you have on the beacon signal downlink. So when he became a SK we didn,t have any body to monitor our QSO,s. Maybe you old timers can remember his call. Maybe we can have comments from the real old satellite operators. Jerry w0sat