[amsat-bb] Re: acceptable use

[Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL]

At 07:30 AM 2/18/2010 -0800, "Thomas McGrane" <n2oeq at aceweb.com> wrote:
>Hi folks
>
>How about an acceptable use policy for the satellite users.
>There are a small number of frequent users that have a disproportionate
>use of the satellites. How do you expect to grow the organization if
>new people cant even get into the satellites. I'm a rare user now
>because of this. I can barely get into them with 50 watts.


Tom,

The FM birds are nothing but a circus and operators on them love the circus 
atmosphere. My solution is to stick to the linear birds where the QSO's are 
longer and the operators friendly.  If you need Montana, I'm on all the 
linear birds almost every evening from about 0000z to 0500z.  FO-29 has 
been super to operate since it's come back up and it's even working in 
eclipse.

73