[amsat-bb] Dupe contacts on SO-50

Mike Diehl diehl.mike.a at gmail.com
Mon Apr 17 03:27:14 UTC 2017


Ken,

I think Tucker was going down the road of lack of situational awareness. It is great to stop and say hi to friends but do you do this on a busy highway, no. If we think of busy FM passes like the 405 here in LA you can see where this is counterproductive.

If you want to hang out and chat with your friends then us hams have many options. HF, DMR, IRLP, the list is long. We all know if there was a single channel only on 40m with a 10 minute opening and you wanted to say "howdy neighbor" with DX rolling in you might be called a LID.

Just like anything else, there's a time and place for saying hi to old friends, doing it in the middle of heavy traffic just isn't the time or place. 

73,

Mike Diehl
AI6GS 

> On Apr 16, 2017, at 8:09 PM, Ken Alexander <k.alexander at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> I see a new category of LID on the horizon: the operator who likes to say hello to his friends.
> 
> When this is over, will there be any satellite operators left who AREN'T LIDs for one reason or another?
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 4/16/17, Tucker McGuire <tucker at mcguireland.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Dupe contacts on SO-50
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Received: Sunday, April 16, 2017, 9:58 PM
> 
> Hello space bird enthusiasts,
> 
> I have noticed that certain stations on
> busy SO-50 passes work the same
> stations that they have worked on many
> previous passes when they are in the
> same grid. Dupe contacts.
> 
> This can prevent and has prevented
> other stations from trying to work new
> grids that happen to be on or perhaps
> prevented them from working a new guy
> that hasn't been on the satellites
> before. On quiet passes I see no issues
> with working the same station you've
> worked hundreds of times before but on
> busy SO-50 passes it is just
> disruptive.
> 
> Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon but that's
> my two cents.
> 
> Cheers & 73,
> Tucker
> W4FS
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