[amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 13, Issue 218

[Greg D]

The Winter FD event is new, and has a much smaller participation
compared to the summer event.  I don't think what worked for the winter
event can scale to the summer one.  Imagine the chaos that would be
caused by having a large prize awarded for a satellite contact in the
summer event, causing a correspondingly large number of participants to
attempt a contact.  It would certainly bring additional attention and
interest in making a satellite contact; perhaps too much.

But, your point about not having additional points awarded is good;
perhaps even take away points for multiple contacts on the FM birds.

Greg  KO6TH


Mac A. Cody wrote:
> One alternative for scoring could be to adopt the approach used for
> Winter Field Day.  For Winter Field Day, a station can net a 1500-point
> bonus for one satellite QSO.  There are no additional points for
> subsequent QSOs.  Not saying that 1500 points would be awarded for
> an ARRL Field Day satellite QSO, but more than 100 points.
>
> 73,
>
> Mac Cody / AE5PH
>
>
> On 06/24/2018 01:20 PM, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB wrote:
>> AO-92 FM on FD... what a mess, wish it was in L-band today..
>> , perhapswould be better to score points just for listening ONLY and
>> getting call sign's + exchange from the bird to get more operators
>> HEARING the bird and less trying to transmit without  being able to
>> hear it...say 1 point for each callsign and exchange monitored...and
>> 2 for each qso after the first one.... something to get guys
>> listening more and less trying to key them up ( perhaps for first
>> time... ) just a thought...ko6kLaudio recording.
>> http://www.valleymedia.org/satchat/2018-06-24-1800z--AO92-FM-Uv--CQFD-mess-ko6kL-cm97-hamsatchat-wav-8m53sec-.wav
>>
>>
>> http://www.valleymedia.org/satchat/2018-06-23-2033z-sat-Ao-91-cq-fd-mess-ham-wav-.wav
>>
>>
>>
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