[amsat-bb] FM Birds

[Joe]

Really? there is only 3 of them?
I had the impression there were a LOT more than that.

Joe WB9SBD
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On 7/2/2017 10:46 AM, R.T.Liddy wrote:
> Joe....  See below.   73,  Bob K8BL
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> *From:* Joe <nss at mwt.net>
> *To:* amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 2, 2017 10:48 AM
> *Subject:* [amsat-bb] FM Birds
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> As someone myself not into the FM Birds, I really have not paid any
> attention to what is out there FM bird wise.
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> But this past Field Day we had this 14 year old kid stop in at our Field
> Day site.
> He's newly licensed Tech, ( January got his ticket ), He sat down in
> front of the HF radio and listened for ohh ten minutes or so, we then
> offered him a chance to run the logger.
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> And he did Great! We were running a Freq on 15 meters at the moment, and
> then asked him if he would want to try getting on the radio, and he said
> sure.
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> We explained the exchange and QSO pattern of what to say and when and
> all that.
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> And said go for it!
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> He was Incredible! Almost from the start he was Running the Freq like a
> veteran pro!  The off freq SSB sigs never even fazed him at all. Even
> pileups he handled perfectly. I was very impressed. For someone that has
> never been on HF or even heard it before, it was like he was doing this
> for decades!
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> He would "QRZed Field Day" And he'd grab a call out of the pile, never
> write it down or anything and go back to them with the exchange and all
> that. Monitoring the QSO rate meter, he for the two hours he played, he
> was running an average 90 QSO's a hour rate! Incredible for someone that
> has never ever been on HF ever before!
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> After he got off I talked to him a bunch and learned that he got his
> license because he read someplace about Amateur Radio and how we can
> talk through  Satellites all our own.
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> Right now all he has is a Baeofeng BF-F8HP, so not much of a Sat radio
> there,, BUT....  I want to give him a list of FM birds to at least
> listen for, and Elmer him into some of the prediction software's and or
> web pages.
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> But I need a list of active FM birds that I can suggest to him to listen
> for.
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> Anyone?
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> Joe WB9SBD
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