[amsat-bb] ISS Beaconator II

[Tucker McGuire]

I agree with Dave on this one. I strongly dislike using the whole "no code"
extra class card as a determining factor for an operator's skills.

Cheers & 73,
Tucker
W4FS
(A "no code extra" that knows code)

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH <kb1pvh at gmail.com> wrote:

> John,
>
>  I don't buy into the whole code vs. no code thing being a benchmark for
> great operators because I've heard plenty of the "coders" operate pretty
> poorly. Just check out AO-7 someday and watch it flip modes because the
> superior "coders" blast it into Oblivion with QRO CW.
>
> Dave-KB1PVH
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy S7
>
> On Apr 18, 2017 2:44 PM, "John Becker" <w0jab at big-river.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 4/18/2017 1:32 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH wrote:
> >
> >> Good ol' N3FCX. I caught the same type of rapid fire beacons from him
> back
> >> in January, I think it was. I emailed him with a copy of my RX log and
> >> asked if he was having issues with his station and his response was
> >> basically thanks for the email maybe I'll catch you on sometime. I guess
> >> he
> >> hasn't changed anything.
> >>
> >> And an EXTRA class to boot. you would think he would be trashing the
> > extra class band a bit also. Just got to love them "NO CODERS"
> >
> > John
> >
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