[amsat-bb] Re: Advice for transponder ops

[Jim Jerzycke]

I noticed it, too.
I was up at the top-end all by my lonesome because I didn't want to step on anybody!
Jim  KQ6EA

--- On Sun, 6/28/09, Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:

From: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
Subject: [amsat-bb]  Advice for transponder ops
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 7:25 AM

I took this screen grab of this morning's eastern FO-29 pass, and what it 
shows is in my opinion very illustrative of a problem that is getting worse 
even on days other than Field Day.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/radio/FO-29FDanotated.jpg

Spread out! There is no good reason that we should have a dozen operators 
fighting over the center 15 kHz of a 100 kHz wide transponder. Remember the 
gentlemen's agreement is the lower third is for CW, middle 1/3 is for mixed 
ops, and the upper 1/3 is for SSB. There is nothing magic about the Doppler 
shift at the very center of the passband that simple addition and 
subtraction can't duplicate elsewhere.

Just my opinion, and please take it constructively.

73, Drew KO4MA 

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