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

[Adrian Engele]

 Unfortunately I heard way too many groups working multiple stations on FM satellites clearly violating that rule during FD.
73, Adrian AA5UK 



    On Monday, June 25, 2018, 6:27:08 AM CDT, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:  
 
 The rules already limit FM QSOs to one.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 01:21 Mac A. Cody <maccody at att.net> wrote:

> Greg,
>
> Yeah.  Icertainly wouldn't make the bonus too much larger than 100
> points.  Don't know how one would penalize for multiple QSOs. You
> might make the one you need and then another station would call you.
> I'd keep it at only one QSO allowed for the bonus and nothing more.
> This would allow for a station to work others to help them get their
> bonus, too, but only if that station wanted to help.  My guess is that
> a lot of stations would bow out once they got their one QSO. That, I
> hope, would free up the FM satellites fairly quickly.
>
> Mac / AE5PH
>
> On 06/25/2018 12:01 AM, Greg D wrote:
> > 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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