[amsat-bb] Field Day (whew)

[Bruce]

In the AMSAT rules we do state, because someone asked about it, you can be a net control type station and work every station you want. You would only be able to score one contact yourself but had given many out to those trying to make the 100 point satellite bonus.  

We still feel by limiting to one FM contact that if you worked someone and both of you leave the bird, two more stations can work each other thereby maximazing the number of possible contacts on the satellite during a single pass. 

73...bruce

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On Jun 25, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) <amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net> wrote:

Hi Dave!

Thanks again for the SO-50 QSO on Saturday morning early in
Field Day. Even with a pass starting to the south, with most
of the footprint over Mexico and the Pacific at that point,
it wasn't an easy QSO to make. Like you, I played my MP3
recording back a couple of times to make sure I copied your
information. It was there, and the QSO went in the log.

After I worked you, I worked two other stations that called -
Ron W5RKN in Texas, followed by W6KA operated by Tom WA0POD.
As I prepare my log for both ARRL and AMSAT, these two QSOs
won't go in my score. I will also have some non-scoring QSOs
on the western AO-91 pass just over an hour later - I worked
KB6LTY very early in that pass, then K6FW and K5RWK (this was
the QSO for their 100-point bonus) before that pass simply
became unworkable due to the number of high-power signals
slamming the satellite. I had exactly one QSO on the AO-85
pass just after 0100 UTC Saturday evening, so I don't have
to worry about the 1-QSO rule there.

I have logged multiple QSOs on FM satellites during Field Days
in the past, and I don't count them in my score. I list them
on the submissions I make to ARRL and AMSAT. In the several
years I have done this, I have never seen any objections to
this come from either entity. I am choosing to make non-scoring
QSOs, instead of - for example - going back to 20m or 40m and
making QSOs for points for ARRL Field Day on those bands.

As for the general theme of many messages on here since the
end of Field Day, I guess it wouldn't be a Field Day among
satellite operators without all the hand-wringing about the
situation on the FM satellites. I'm not sure I heard "lots" of
QSOs on any of the V/U or U/V FM satellites - I heard some,
but heard more CQing, "QRZ", or on one AO-85 pass a station
IDing so often it was basically a CQ call without saying CQ.
Were there QSOs being made into Saturday night and into
Sunday morning? I didn't hear many QSOs on the western AO-92
pass yesterday, just before 1800 UTC, that I heard from home.