[amsat-bb] Field Day (whew)

[Paul Stoetzer]

" I was dismayed to find they'd made lots of satellite contacts, even doing
a couple on a final pass
before the QRT call."

There's nothing wrong with making lots of satellite contacts! The station
that won AMSAT Field Day last year made 199 of them last year, in fact.

The one and done rule only applies to FM satellites.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:55 AM, David Bartholomew <dgbartholomew at gmail.com
> wrote:

> A club member from W6SD asked me if I could come to their FD site in
> Granada Hills CA to do the satellite contact for them. I said I would do
> it.
> I had planned ahead, figured out a list of the better passes of the FM sats
> and FO-29.
> Got set up and tried SO-50.  We were fortunate. It was coming in from the
> south and the footprint didn't reach a lot of land yet.
> I heard WD9EWK on there and figured, "If anyone can work us through all of
> this, he can!"
> And he did. Well done.
>
> I had a small group around me as I did this. N7JY was holding the Elk and
> his Android tablet, watching the sat path and doing the aiming.  I posted a
> picture on Twitter @ad7db.
>
> Few of the group actually heard the live exchange come back, but I did.
> I always record the pass, so, after we got the contact, I turned off the
> radio and played it back for them.  It took a couple of plays to convince
> them, yes, we got the contact. "There he is coming back to us, right...
> there!"
>
> The next day I visited another group's FD site. I was dismayed to find
> they'd made lots of satellite contacts, even doing a couple on a final pass
> before the QRT call. What happened with the "one and done" rule?   "7.3.7.1
> - Stations are limited to one (1) completed QSO on any single channel FM
> satellite."
>
> Dave AD7DB
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