That's really nice to hear! I wasn't able to do Field Day this year due to a death in the family, but I'm happy to hear that some of the birds sounded like 20 Meters on a contest weekend.

Next year I'll most likely be 1E from Colorado as we're packing up and getting out of SoCal in a couple of months, and I haven't looked into to clubs in our new QTH area.

Glad you all had a great Field Day!

73, Jim KQ6EA

On 06/25/2017 09:21 PM, Ronald G. Parsons wrote:

I’ve operated my home satellite station each of the past few Field Day’s but 2017 out shined them all. Each pass was nearly filled with stations calling “CQ Field Day.” It was music to my ears although cacophonous at times.

Even though I was limited by family events, I managed to log 33 Satellite Field Day contacts Saturday and a few more today when time permitted. Even AO-7 stayed up and gave me quite a few contacts on Saturday.

I think my favorite pass was on XW-2A 25 June 2017 around 0130Z. It brought that old hymn to mind with a new title “Let’s all gather at the center.” See the following link for the waterfall spectrum.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jez46MB5RaQ0xHLVRGblNLMTQ/view?usp=sharin...

As expected, the FM satellites were overloaded with traffic but the current crop of linear satellites more than made up for it.

Looking back at a great 2017 and forward to an even better 2018.

Congratulations AMSAT!

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