With the ever increasing madhouse that AO-51 is becoming, and with spring just around the corner adding more users to the satellite, I've typed up a fairly simple "do's and don'ts" guide to working AO-51. The guide focuses more on etiquette and operational guidelines rather then technical ideas, because there are already some excellent guides out there for the new user to read up on.

This was more or less conceived one night in #amsat on irc.dishnuts.net while discussing the operational issues on AO-51. The satellite is a very good, very easy satellite to get into, however, the more people jam on, the harder it is for people to use it. So, myself, John (KB2HSH), Charles (N3CRT), and Mark (KF6KYI) all tossed around ideas on what is more a less a good "code of conduct" for AO-51 operation.

Without further adieu:

PDF (35K) http://www.innismir.net/etc/CourteousAO51_v1.1.pdf DOC (38K) http://www.innismir.net/etc/CourteousAO51_v1.1.doc

Comments? Questions? Suggestions?