Just a friendly reminder to beginners on the FM satellites (maybe you just got a new radio for Christmas), that there is an established protocol for calling on the FM birds and "CQ satellite" isn't it.

I strongly urge anyone new to the satellites to check out this pdf of best practices for the FM satellites:

https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FM-Satellites-Bes...

If you are "CQing" on an FM bird you are taking up time that could be going into actual QSOs.

Thank you!

Steve AI9IN