[amsat-bb] Field Day (whew)

[Stephan Greene]

You wrote....<snip>
>
> After the chaos of AO-91, I prepped to get ready for CAS-4B at 1929z. This
> time, I pulled out the stops. I tuned up quickly at AOS, and started
> calling CQ with all the watts, smack dab in the middle of the passband.
> There were stations all around me, but none of them were hearing each
> other.. as opposed to them, I could actually hear.  I worked KB6LTY
> quickly, followed by WD9EWK, and then just kept following the bird east. 12
> minutes later I lost the bird behind some buildings after working a VE2. 14
> total stations logged, California to Quebec, in 1 pass. The crowd went
> nuts. I spent the next 2 hours showing local hams how to improve their
> arrows by using things like good coax, and a couple of the kids mentioned
> how sitting around with headphones turning dials was boring, but working
> satellites looked like fun. After that I packed up my stuff and headed back
> home, and didn't make another contact til after 1800z on Sunday.


For ops wanting to get more folks interested, THIS is the way to do it.
Excellent job!  I worked you (K4LRG) on that pass.  CAS-4A and B were our
best producers (26 and 20 QSOs), I think my best run of the weekend was 9
QSOs on 4B the following pass.

I shared a shelter with our GOTA station, and showed satellite ops to our
visitors, but not with THAT degree of success.

73 Steve KS1G