[amsat-bb] Re: What a shame!

[Edward Cole]

Oh yes!  You should have heard the pile up on AO-10 when "AL7" was 
first heard and everyone was asking what country was that?  AL7 
prefixes were relatively new in Alaska and I had one (AL7EB).  Once 
they found out it was ordinary ole Alaska, the fervor died down ;-)

Now I get the bums rush on 2m-eme since I am the only station QRV on 
2m in Alaska with any regularity.

Ed - KL7UW (ex AL7EB)
I worked Willis Island and New Caledonia on AO-10, rare DX for even 
HF.  When I asked those stations, they had come over to satellite 
because they were tired of the incessant pileups on HF.  We had a 
very nice casual QSO of several minutes with maybe one to two other 
stations joining.

At 12:20 PM 2/21/2009, Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield wrote:
>Sebastian always seems to be a reasonable guy.  I second what he said, and
>will add our minds tend to cloud over the past making it better as time goes
>on.  LEO, HEO it doesn't really matter much when rare DX gets on the bird.
>It will get a little wild, maybe not as bad as 20 meters, but still a little
>wild.  Remember VU7 on AO-13?  That was wild.
>
>73,
>Joe kk0sd
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
>Behalf Of Sebastian
>Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:15 AM
>To: AMSAT BB
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: What a shame!
>
>While I certainly agree with the intent of the QRP transponder on
>AO-51; you might want to consider the possibility that the station
>calling CQ may not be aware of it.  Not all the hams who work, or
>attempt to work the satellites are active on this reflector, or even
>read up on how to properly work a satellite.
>
>I always try to send an email to the person who can't hear anything,
>and 9 times out of 10 I receive an email back thanking me for letting
>them know they were heard, and asking me why they can't seem to hear
>anything.  It then translates into a bit of Elmering to get them to
>put up either better antennas or just send them towards some of the
>articles on the Amsat web page.
>
>A number of those hams are now active 'new' hams on the birds.  If you
>have his call, why not send them a nice email, saying they were heard,
>and it's not proper etiquette to call CQ on an FM satellite
>continuously; and point them to this reflector or the AMSAT web.
>
>Recently on this reflector there have been several posts about the
>over abundance of activity, abuse and interference on AO-51; even one
>that surprised the heck out of me from one of the AMSAT officers.
>Seems to me that we might need another LEO or 2 to tied us over since
>the loss of AO-27 and AO-16.   While it seems that most of the posts
>on here eventually go on a tangent towards the lack of a HEO, the use
>of the LEOS are exponentially going up.  Just my .02 worth.
>
>73 de W4AS
>Sebastian
>
>On Feb 20, 2009, at 9:51 PM, John Price wrote:
>
> > During the over head pass this evening of AO-51 on the QRP transponder
> > there was a station that called QC from AOS to LOS. He obviously could
> > not hear himself or anyone else. A couple of stations
> > tried to call him and got no answer. I wont give the call but I am
> > sure he it was him. What a shame! Hard to believe anyone would be that
> > inconsiderate. I don't know if the DX was on or not but they sure
> > would have had no chance if they were. Then someone started sending
> > music towards the end of the pass. How bad is ham radio going to get
> > before we all get feed up and find another hobby? Sure
> > is causing me to rethink my opinion.
> >
> > --
> > N4QWF Amateur Radio Operator
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