[amsat-bb] Dupe contacts on SO-50

[skristof at etczone.com]

Excellent point and a nice analogy, Mike. 

Steve AI9IN

On 2017-04-16 23:27, Mike Diehl wrote:

> 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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