[amsat-bb] Re: Advice for transponder ops

[n3tl@bellsouth.net]

AMEN brother!

I called CQ multiple times on AO-7 in CW last night between 145.940 and 145.944 (downlink), and NOBODY was tuning down that far. I found that very disappointing, as I did the close proximity of all the stations on FO-29 and VO-52. 

I believe a lot of us could have made a lot more contacts on the linear satellites if we'd just used the passband.

Thanks for this post Drew!

73 to all,

Tim - N3TL
-------------- Original message from "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>: -------------- 


> 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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